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...overlooking the ocean. A few years ago he went to California, saw and liked bungalows. The result was that when he returned he moved his colonial home to the back of the estate, built a large bungalow on its site. On this estate, he raised, besides many an imported shrub and prize dog, an able active son: Willis Carridine Fitkin, 23, who is now vice president of the Fitkin companies...
Anent your comment on the "Crown of Thorns" displayed in the New York Flower Show (TIME, March 30): There are several of these plants on this island and I am enclosing herewith a cutting from one of them growing in our garden. This particular shrub has been blooming almost continuously for the past six years. Botanically, the "Crown of Thorns" belongs to the Poinsettia family. There are at least two legends about this plant: 1 ) The wreath referred to in Matthew 27:29, was platted with cuttings from it: 2) it will not bloom if tended by wicked persons. From...
...about deserted Washington. He picked up a cold. It grew worse. Feeling "utterly wretched" he decided to go down to sunny, sandy Aiken, S. C. to visit his good Washington friends Mr. & Mrs. James F. Curtis (no kin to the Vice President). Fortnight ago he arrived at their low, shrub-bowered home behind its stone wall. His cold got no better. It went into his chest. Early last week doctors were called in, and put the Speaker into bed as a pneumonia patient. The pneumonia was dread Type...
...with a spoonful of soup at her lips. For the past ten months the Graphic has published such stealth-got snapshots. Last week Graphic readers smirked and tittered at the "Unsuspected Moments" page. Not only had "Cyclops" got a picture of the Belgian Ambassador to Holland sitting on a shrub-hidden staircase with the Countess of Limburg-Thirmm at a Hague reception, but he had succeeded in taking a picture of himself in the mirror behind them...
...Snow covered the rear grounds of the White House one morning last week. Out through the falling flakes ran President Hoover. Behind him trotted Secretaries Wilbur and Hyde, Solicitor-General Hughes, Farm Board Chairman Legge, six others. When they came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...