Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face pale and expressionless. At his right sat his broad-beamed Chief Counsel, Frank P. Walsh, to hire whom, according to Florida newshawks in the press gallery, Judge Ritter was obliged to mortgage his Florida home. The third chair was occupied by his local counsel from Miami. Up rose the Secretary of the Senate to read the first article of the impeachment. It charged Judge Ritter with allowing a $75,000 fee to his onetime law partner in a bankruptcy case, getting a $4,500 kickback for himself...
Press censorship was clamped down on all references to the scandal. Several footless efforts were made to prop up the sagging company. Last week came the end when Phönix-Wien disbanded, three directors were arrested, and from its ashes rose a new insurance company called Austrian Insurance Co. Ltd., capitalized at only $2,000,000. Foreign Phönix policyholders will have to stand their loss. The new company hopes to save Austrian policies with a 5% premium rise, a special tax on other Austrian insurance companies...
Build me a home in a garden With my window flush with the lawn Where life overflows on the heart of a rose Where birds may wake me at dawn...
...magnificent shot of a verdant Alpine valley under the shadow of a towering mountain head wall. Especially illustrative of the delicacy of Dr. Porter's technique are the flower studies including a translucently vivid composition of dogwood branches and flowers and a superbly detailed picture of a single rose. Perhaps the most interesting subject content is offered by the pictures of a Tyrolean mountain church yard and an excitingly beautiful picture of a deserted wooden house which has become practically obscured by the lush growth of the vegetation. There are also a skillfully taken shot of mountain snow-scapes...
Hence she to ask me to dinner if "I dared change my creed." So to Milton and all the afternoon to give her little sisters many piggy-back rides and to tell them many stories of giants and flowers and fairies. Whence rose the serious discussion: "Are fairies real?" 'Tis a pity little ones doubt so young. Of course fairies are real. Real as Peter Rabbit and Easter bunnies; real as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; real as Robinson Crusoe and unfound treasures; real as princesses and bold Knights; real as songs never sung and poems never written; real...