Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prohibition became national and the word Volstead was minted for household use. Yet last week while Andrew J. Volstead, three years since retired from Congress, was quietly busy in St. Paul investigating the validity of manufacturing permits for the use of industrial alcohol, a wave of anti-prohibition sentiment rose. How large the wave may have been, how much genuine and how much propaganda-made, there is no saying. But it made a big splash...
...Rainbow Rose. In TIME for Aug. 24 you will find a comedy called A Lucky Break marked unsatisfactory. The comedy now reappears with music added and remains strictly routine. It is about a rich man who discovered that his old home town loved him for himself and not his money. Fair music and moderately adept performers are included. One imitation monkey-dance by Hansford Wilson is all that mattered much...
Erysipelas. This disease, popularly called the Rose or St. Anthony's* Fire, is a highly contagious infection caused by the streptococcus pyogenes. This germ resembles a minute seed and grows in long chains, like a string of beads. It gains entrance to the human body usually by some abrasion, sometimes by way of the tonsils. Then it spreads first through the lymphatic system, later through the blood to every part. It gives off a toxin (poison) which diffuses through the system even more quickly than the germ itself. The peculiar effect of the streptococci pyogenes is to cause fever, although...
...Seventh Heaven" wears well, and as a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, how much sweeter, well what's in a name anyway...
Married. James Graham Phelps Stokes, 53, noted millionaire Socialist publicist, divorced husband of the notorious Communist Rose Pastor Stokes (TIME, Oct. 26, MILESTONES), brother of able Anson Phelps Stokes (Secretary to Yale University 1899-1921); to Miss Lettice Lee Sands of Manhattan, at the Liberal Catholic* Church, Manhattan...