Word: petal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Florence Foster Jenkins, 76, billowing coloratura, well-to-do sponsor of her own costumed concerts at Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel; one month after her Carnegie Hall recital debut (where her rose-petal-strewn rendition of Clavelitos was wildly bravoed); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Breathing heavily, his Bible under his arm, Poet John Milton climbed into the bridal bed. He read his "numb and stark" bride, Marie, a few snatches from the Song of Solomon ("How beautiful is my beloved ..."), marked the place with a rose petal, then pushed Marie out of bed to give thanks that the species had been created male and female. When Marie complained that the bridal party had given her a fierce hangover, Mr. Milton lost patience. "Phlegmatic and ungrateful wretch!" he barked. "What a froward, drivelling flibbergib have I taken to my bosom!" Then he booted...
...number of nerve cells at birth, and, unlike other cells, they do not multiply. Torn nerve fibres heal only by sending forth tendrils toward the severed ends. In stitching together jagged nerve ends, surgeon must be careful not to pull the nerve taut, must draw the silk through the petal-thin nerve sheath, not through its body...
...fabulous old mine, the flowers will still be growing in sheets of gold & blue & pink-petal to petal, as John Muir once said...