Word: petaling
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...more years his matchless leadership will be found in the No. 1 seat on the right-hand side of the aisle." In the No. i seat, the hero of the hour sat stoically staring ahead, grinned occasionally, until the last of 29 colleagues had hurled a rose petal...
...Velvet Swing [20th Century-Fox). One fine day when the century was young, and men of insight were wondering what the peekaboo waist might lead to. John Barrymore took a chorus girl named Evelyn Nesbit to supper. He ordered a glass of milk, and floating a rose petal on it. murmured seductively: "That is your mouth." Furthermore, he declared. "You are a quivering pink poppy in a golden, windswept space." John was a poor young cartoonist in those days, and all he could pay was compliments, but there were many wealthy wolves on the prowl at Evelyn's door...
House of Bamboo (20th Century-Fox) is a well-made cops-and-robbers story filmed in Tokyo. Enhanced by the petal-like beauty of the scenery, the story al most makes crime seem worth...
...Petal Pusher. In St. Louis, Mail Order Florist John T. Southwell was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $1,600 after federal agents discovered that the "blue rose" which had grossed him $700,000 in 18 months was a common red rose which fades to a bluish color as it dies...
...seeds of grain, cutting roads six inches wide through vegetation to reach their crops. Most harvest ants march out together to gather the seeds, then straggle back with their burdens. Some ants which return without grain apparently feel embarrassed, pick up a useless pebble or a fallen petal and carry it along for show until they get home...