Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four copies of the marriage contract were signed, a white flag went up on the palace as token that the bridegroom had shaken hands with his father-in-law, first of 101 guns boomed out. Waiters rushed to the distinguished guests with trays of rose water and honey. All but the two officiating sheiks received solid gold candy boxes as wedding souvenirs. The two sheiks each got a Cashmere shawl...
...founded by San Francisco's Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany in 1863, little St. Mary's College foundered, was saved only when Pope Pius IX appealed to the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a lay order, to take it over. The college burned down in 1894, rose from its ashes, was razed again by fire in 1918, made still another fresh start. In 1921, when it hired Edward Patrick ("Slip") Madigan to coach its football teams, St. Mary's began an era of prosperity that culminated when it moved, 700 students strong, into a $1,500,000 plant...
Thirty years ago the most eminent of all U. S. composers, Edward Alexander MacDowell, died in Manhattan's Westminster Hotel. Known most widely for his piano piece, To a Wild Rose, courtly, affable MacDowell was internationally famed for an imposing list of orchestral suites, symphonic poems, piano concertos, songs and instrumental solo pieces. Sensitive and nervous by temperament (a mental breakdown hastened his death at 46), MacDowell loved the country, drew inspiration and titles for his music from nature. Eventually he bought himself a strip of wooded land near Peterboro in southern New Hampshire, where he spent his last...
...their beef at any price. The July slaughter was 25% over the previous year and many a rancher faced ruin. But the chains, with the aid of numerous packers, put on sales pressure. Chain-store beef sales jumped 34% in August over August 1935; the price of choice steers rose from $8.58 in June to $10 in September; cattlemen received more August income than the previous five-year average; the Government had to buy only 5,000 head to hold up the market instead of the 2,500,000 it bought...
...many localities the beef campaigns and others which followed had a long-range effect not originally foreseen. In a campaign for lamb, prices continued to rise for six months after the promotion slopped. In pushing grapefruit, one chain company developed so many new customers that its sales rose 1,695% m rural territories. A new market was opened up. One farm woman wrote: "I boiled the thing [grapefruit] for three hours and a half and it was just as tough afterward as when I began...