Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atmosphere of Hankow had been "gloomy as a morgue," but at noon on Independence Day spirits rose as Chinese G.H.Q. announced that near Teian, 100 miles from Hankow, some 10,000 Japanese had been "wiped out in a four-day battle greater than Taierhchwang." This was not subsequently confirmed, but within an hour after the announcement the previously silent streets of Hankow became a bedlam of exploding firecrackers amid which Chinese newsboys hopped about selling Independence Day "Victory Extras...
Editor of Jack and Jill is peppy, dark, bob-haired Ada Campbell Rose, mother of two-Donald, 11, Malcolm, 4. Colorado-born, graduating from Northwestern in 1923, she got a job with the Chicago firm of Scott, Foresman, textbook publishers, spent three years learning what children like to read. Wife of Donald G. Rose, Department of Agriculture agent, who she says "is not the least bit literary," Editor Rose is daughter-in-law of Philip Sheridan Rose, editor of Curtis' Country Gentle...
Across the face of civilization, the shadows of ever changing ages cast kaleidoscopic patterns. Now it is the golden shadow of Romanticism blending into the rose of Humanism, now the purple of Classicism rising to the emerald of Idealism only to deepen into the ebon hue of Realism; then all the shadows intermingle to tremble back and forth across the mind of man, to influence man's living, to influence, perhaps his death...
...Prendergast was a simple man. While working in a Boston dry goods store as a boy, he made his first sketches of women's dresses that stood about the shop. "Nothing amused his eyes," says Van Wyck Brooks, "more than a pretty dress, blue, green, yellow or old rose, as one saw in all his pictures to the end of his life, the beach parties and fairytale picnics with their charming wind-blown figures and little girls with parasols and flying skirts...
Married. Martha Raye (real name: Marjorie Yvonne Reed), 22, trumpetvoiced cinema comedienne; and David Rose, 29-year-old composer; in Mexico. Miss Raye's divorce from Hollywood Make-up Artist Hamilton ("Buddy") Westmore became final last month...