Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back in years as 1888 or '89 I, then a teacher in a public school in a small New York town (Bernhard's Bay) near my home town, became interested in this subject, and when my school of two rooms was polled it was learned that the children, to a soul, voted for the columbine. Since then at different times, I have endeavored to interest people in this subject of the columbine as a national flower; and just happening to read the May Nature magazine, I discovered that the subject of a national flower is being brought forward...
Down in Mill Valley, rich householders and poor looked upward in common alarm. From across the bay San Franciscans could see the reddened, angry sky, the fire marching down the mountainside. Around the bay went the alarm, brought boats with firemen, U. S. Rangers, soldiers from three forts, small boys, milkmen, millionaires hustling...
...happy, now on an official tour of Europe, last week paid a surprise visit to the League of Nations at Geneva. He caused a mild panic among the staid members of the Secretariat. Little used to entertaining pompous monarchs who travel as does Egypt's Fuad with a small army of retainers, Secretariat members thought only in the nick of time to provide a throne for the dusky, red-fezzed potentate. Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly canvassed Geneva's second-hand shops...
...masses, Economist Shishi has a son, Kazuhiko Hamaguchi, at present a research worker in the New York branch of the Bank of Japan. Graduate of the Imperial University of Tokyo, onetime intercollegiate jiu-jitsu champion of Japan, fond of tennis, eager for golf, Son Kazuhiko shares a small villa at Bayside, L. I., with an office mate. Interviewed last week he giggled politely, admitted that his father likes walking and reading, wears kimonos at home, European clothes on the street...
...discourse centred on two main Lutheran desires: 1) World unity among Lutherans; 2) A revival and fostering of the spirit of Martin Luther, to be engendered chiefly by intensive reading and teaching of Luther's Small Catechism...