Word: rattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Lothian held a press conference the second day after his arrival. Embassy attendants goggled as he sat nonchalantly in a rattan chair on the portico beside the wide formal garden behind the Chancellery, answering reporters' questions directly if he could, with disarming evasions if he could...
Many thanks for your ad in TIME, May 2 for St. Petersburg's most remarkable rattan chairs, where it takes longer to die in these chairs and on our world-famous green benches than any others on earth. Many who came here to die-within 90 days-40 years ago are still waiting but not hoping. Your pappy, Father Time, is here but you wouldn't know him. Last seen he was chasing a bevy of our beach beauties-and not with a sickle. . . . Time marches on-in St. Petersburg-with a firm, sturdy and steady step...
...visitors drive, ride, sail and fly there to see such divergent sights as the matchless Rubens collection in the Ringling Art Museum at Sarasota, the barbarously gaudy architecture of Hollywood, the flowerlike flamingos in the infield at Hialeah and the old people quietly dying in their rattan chairs at St. Petersburg. Florida is bounded by the utter reality of the bean fields around Lake Okeechobee, and the utter unreality of the skyscrapers over Miami...
...cryptic analysis to the photographs in the volume, readers may get an impression of an India far more serene than Katherine Mayo's words suggest. Pictures include queer ones of a holy man sitting comfortably on nails, a shot of the spiderweb suspension bridge, made of cane and rattan, that stretches 800 ft. across the Dihang River in Assam. Another holy man, dressed only in covering of thorns and spikes, is pictured twanging away cheerfully on a native banjo, while a holy woman of Benares is shown practicing devotion by staring into the sun without winking. Despite glimpses...
...interests of your reputation which you doubtless strive zealously to maintain, I would call your attention to an unfortunate omission in your list of important exports from China. . . . China has always been practically the sole source of supply for Rattan-Reeds, used in the manufacture of Baby Carriages, Reed Furniture, Baskets, etc., at least the first of which I am sure you will agree is of vital importance to the peace and comfort of the rising generation. I believe, therefore, that any list of important commodity exports from China is quite incomplete without mention of Rattan-Reeds...