Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last he got work as a farmhand. He was not very good at it, worked with a chip on his shoulder that eventually lost him the job. Then he took anything he could get: cutting down trees, playing the piano in a cinema, shovelling off sidewalks. When he rose to be part-time gardener for rich suburbanites, it was easily the best thing in sight...
...storm & strife of tear gas and window-smashings, of roaring, club-waving mass resistance to the Law, seemed pleasantly far away. Day before the Guffey bill windup, New York's New Dealing Robert F. Wagner had presented what was believed to be the Administration viewpoint when he rose in the Senate to blame the Sit-Down on employers' defiance of his National Labor Relations Act, thus implying that it was up to the Supreme Court to resolve the Labor crisis by a decision on the Act. Not one of the Senate's Sit-Down critics had risen...
Long in advance His Majesty's Government chose to make this epochal change on April Fools' Day. Not thousands but millions of the Indian people rose that morning last week to don black armbands and break out black flags and bunting...
...upper middle-class family, like all Virginia Woolf's principal characters. But the actors are not the first thing seen. The curtain goes up on a scene that is pointedly empty of human beings. Time is to be the real protagonist of the story: "At length the moon rose and its polished coin, though obscured now and then by wisps of cloud, shone out with serenity, with severity, or perhaps with complete indifference. Slowly wheeling, like the rays of a searchlight, the days, the weeks, the years passed one after another across the sky." On a spring...
...ones appear; the passage of time is as apparent as in the cinema of a growing plant. In the last scene the whole family have come together in a big informal party. Eleanor, noted now for her rambling tongue and inability to finish a sentence, is over so. Rose, the baby, is stout and deaf. Milly is as fat as her jovial husband, who "swayed from side to side as if his benevolence rolled about in him. He was like an old elephant who may be going to kneel." The once-lovely Kitty is now "one of those well...