Word: rosebushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: In 1788 John Adams and his wife, Abigail, brought from England to their new home in Quincy, Mass, a Yorkish rosebush. Wife Abigail planted it behind the house, close to the library windows. That summer it bloomed, white & yellow. Last week Abigail Adams' Yorkish rosebush bloomed, white & yellow, for the 146th consecutive year. Following his release by kidnappers William Franklin Gettle (TIME, May 24), well-to-do Los Angeles homebody, let himself be shown off to civic organizations, Rotary Clubs, Chambers of Commerce. Such exhibitions wore away his last...
...confusedly denied after his lecture bureau manager had wirelessed him that U. S. animal lovers were protesting his admittance to the country. Cried the Professor: "Am I a dog dentist? Such a thing to say of me! I who love dogs!" In his denial, the dog became a rosebush, the teeth thorns...
Until President Warner took charge, McCall's was distinctly a smalltown magazine. In 1919 it gave its last rosebush subscription premium...
...Blue calico dress for Susie Bigfoot; 30 Ib. boiling beef for Hudson's; 4 pr. gumboots size 11 Lucky Strike Mining Co.; dozen phonograph records assorted Joe Slisco; rosebush knocked down deputy marshal; 2 live pigs not exceed 10 Ib.; 2 Ib. epsom salts...