Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chic ankles twinkled toward him. Her figure is svelte, lithe-though she does not dance-her voice sultry, a blues voice. At a curt nod from her the huge, perspiring black who is Miss Jones' husband snapped his hot-time jazz baton. Prince Henry hesitated, then rose, followed Florence out on the floor and black-bottomed...
...program tonight will consist of 14 numbers in all. They are as follows: 1. "Oriental Fantasy"; 2. "Sometimes I'm Happy"; 3. "Sunny Disposiah"; 4. "I Can't Believe You're In Love"; 5. "Jazz Me Blues"; 6. "I'll Just Go Along"; "Halleluiah"; 8. "Rose in the Bud"; 9. "Jim Time Blues"; 10. Little Boy, Little Girl"; 11. "Ain't She Sweet"; 12. "Russian Fantasy"; 13. "Old-Fashioned Love"; 14. "Our Director...
...ROSE M. PREVITALI...
Major General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of the U. S. Army engineers, rose to his feet. General Jadwin reiterated the army-engineer insistence upon levees as the backbone of flood prevention. He said that though the flood has submerged 20,000 square miles, it would have submerged 30,000 had levees not restricted its spread. General Jadwin also attacked the popular theory that reforestation would prevent future floods; he pointed out that in 1844, when the valley was thickly forested, it experienced one of the greatest floods of its history...
Looking down on Akron, Ohio, from an airplane a mile high, it seemed as if some gigantic bird had laid 15 spherical eggs on a field near the city. Soon the eggs rose and floated away to the northeast. The illusion was shattered; for no egg that can float in the air has yet been laid. Closer inspection revealed that these objects were balloons with baskets tied to their bottoms. In the baskets were anxious, active specks of men. They jockeyed with the wind, sailed away to Canada, New York, New England...