Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, authorities heeded the silent pleading of the late Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees) by approving a project to plant a tree in the shadeless yard of the Joyce Kilmer School...
Actually not all of the nine paintings on show were distorted, but most of them were poor. They ranged from a seasick-looking sailor with form and features rearranged to suit Picasso, to a 1944 Plante de Tomates which made perfectly good sense-except that the plant appeared to be growing from a puddle of light rays instead...
...genie, at that time safely encased in the bottle, first rolled up on the industrial shore in 1943. Then, workers at Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. sued, under the Wages & Hours Act, for time spent in the plant before the whistle blew. (They were required to punch the time clock 14 minutes before the actual start of work, to give them time to walk to their benches, put on gloves, work clothes, etc.) A special master threw out the claims, on the grounds that the workers had not proved how much of the time was actually spent in "makeready" tasks...
...last week, Judge Picard opened re-hearings on the Mt. Clemens case, to measure the trifles. It should have been easy. He had gone to the Mt. Clemens plant himself, to check on makeready practices from time clocks to work benches. He wanted everyone to agree that it took twelve seconds to put on an apron, 20 seconds to clean hands, that a man walked 275 ft. a minute, etc. But the company and union lawyers would not agree. Furthermore, they would not agree on which of these functions were trifles or on whether trifles should be added...
...that Peggy was having a baby, but Manhattan's Lane Bryant store is so famed for its maternity clothes that a visit there almost automatically lands a woman in Winchell's column. Actually, Lane Bryant, Inc., which has 22 other retail shops and a big mail-order plant to boot, does 95% of its $41 million annual business in non-maternity wear. Its chief stock-in-trade is the legitimate offspring of its maternity wear: clothes for fat women...