Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dived head-first into a brushpile, came up with a .45 automatic in his hand. While he blazed at the guards two more convicts scooped two more guns out of the brush. Somewhere behind a barn a horn honked steadily. Out of rank weeds edging a ditch two men rose, splattered machine gun and pistol bullets around the wounded guards as five prisoners scrambled toward the honking horn. Fugitives and deliverers then roared out of sight...
Coatless and black shirted himself, last week Il Duce faced the Chamber which thrice rose and sang the Fascist anthem "Youth, youth, springtime of beauty!"* before the 60 minute session began...
Next day, with a fresh rose in his lapel, Johns Hopkins Gynecologist-Naturalist- Botanist-Historian-Professor Howard Atwood Kelly, 75, piously denounced "a certain mechanical meddling with married life which is abhorrent to me. . . . Think of an elaborate conference on Birth Control in the Mayflower Hotel! Such a thing would have been inconceivable 20 years ago. And a great social gathering, too, at which details were talked over. Disgusting! ... I have nine children, and 14 grandchildren...
...Edgar Allan Poe took his 20-year-old wife Virginia Clemm and his mother-in-law to a "rose-covered cottage" at No. 530 N. Seventh St., Philadelphia. There he wrote The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat. In 1929 the cottage, ramshackle and slum-shadowed, was purchased by Department Storeman Richard Gimbel who founded a Memorial Society to preserve it. On Poet Poe's 125th birthday last week 1,500 guests of the Society heard his praise spoken by Owen D. Young, Heywood Broun, William Lyon Phelps, saw the cottage dedicated to his memory...
...Sellers ("Charles E. Mack"), 46, blackface comedian, "head man" of the Moran & Mack team; when he was pinned under the overturned automobile in which he was riding with his wife, daughter, Partner Moran, and Mack Sennett, all of whom were slightly hurt; near Mesa, Ariz. Born in Kansas, he rose from newsboy to professional base-bailer, streetcar conductor, stage electrician. When comedians remembered and used his quips, he decided to use them himself, toured in vaudeville with a partner named Moran who died of pneumonia. He ran a trunk factory in Cleveland, returned to the stage with Comedian George Searcy...