Word: plum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor of Hawaii. Rare, too. is the U. S. citizen who can get that chance under existing law which requires the territorial Governor to be an actual resident of the islands. Last week President Roosevelt asked Congress to change the law and make this picturesque plum available to nonresidents. Said he in a special message: "In making my choice I should like to be free to pick from the islands themselves or from the entire United States the best man for this post...
...International Flower Show at Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, quietly watching record crowds mill around the long tables of orchid exhibits. He watched the orchids, bright and delicate, crumple slowly after four days in the crowd's breath. Now & then he eyed particularly a spray of big plum-striped orchids, a hybrid whose glazed hairy petals crumpled not at all. This extraordinary flower had equal upper & lower petals unlike most orchids, and attenuated side petals that fell like walrus mustaches. It was Cyprepedium Rothschildianum, rarest orchid at the Show, and it had won the prize as the best...
...plumpest diplomatic plum, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, seemed last week about to drop into the dapper lap of Robert Worth Bingham, 61, wealthy Louisville, Ky. publisher. Born and educated in North Carolina, Mr. Bingham crossed the mountains to Kentucky to seek fame & fortune. He practiced law, served as Mayor of Louisville (1907), sat on the bench, organized long leaf tobacco growers into cooperatives. After his first wife was killed in an automobile accident, he married the widow of Henry Morrison Flagler who made $70,000,000 developing the Florida East Coast. In 1917 she died...
...entered the White House at 11 a. m. with almost embarrassing promptness. It just missed colliding in the hallway with President Hoover and his aides as they hustled to the Red Room to receive their callers. Beneath a fine Federalist cut-glass chandelier President Hoover sat down on a plum-colored velvet couch. Mr. Roosevelt was nodded into a seat beside him. Secretaries Stimson and Mills, Democrat Norman Hezekiah Davis and Professor Raymond Moley distributed themselves nearby. Mr. Hoover, as usual, took a cigar. Mr. Roosevelt, as usual, took a cigaret...
...wife called him Will. His explanation: "I was named Willie but that's a girl's name, so I decided to use Will." Funnyman Rogers endorsed him: "He's shown more ingenuity already than any candidate I ever heard of. . . . This bird is smart. In fact he'll be plum out of place in Congress." A Dry, Representative-elect Rogers plays croquet...