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...light that somehow was more like silver than gold. But those rolling downs! Nowhere call there by another green quite like their shade in late May. A pastel tint, they lay, deepening the bollows to a hunter emerald. So she made garden throughout the morning, busy with tulip and dahlia tubers, hollybook plants to draw the bees, and the bitter tansy. The grocery boy came by with news of a herring run down at the Gut. He sniffed. "Seems like it's spring, I guess." "Ayea," game her noncommittal assent from, the kitchen door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...affecting broadcast which acknowledged with dignity that there must now be a change. Dr. Benes, who is independently well off, retired to his 100-acre estate near Prague, where his gardener exulted: "This is the first time I have had a chance to talk with the President about our tulip beds since last spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: New Deal | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

From Rotterdam last week arrived the first of the 100,000,000 tulip, gladioli, iris, hyacinth, crocus and daffodil bulbs worth some $5,000,000 which the Dutch annually export to the U. S. This week the cordial trade relations between The Netherlands and the U. S. blossomed with the announcement that a vacant lot in Manhattan's Radio City will soon sprout a Netherlands Building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Clearing House | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Blooming by day in the Radcliffe, Yard, but modestly retiring into a cellar at five o'clock every day, a four-foot tulip has been amazing passersby. This horticultural marvel, is, however, only a department store creation, built up from wire and paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREAKISH FOUR-FOOT TULIP ASTONISHES ALL RADCLIFFE | 5/4/1938 | See Source »

...Scholl's corn pads . . . President Roosevelt, 8 x 10 . . . floor polish . . . screw drivers . . . garters . . . Melorol Mammoth Tulip Sundae . . . Flit . . . feathers . . . razor blades . . . Lucky Sapphire Birthday Brooches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Five & Ten Cent Bonds | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

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