Word: tulip
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...sense of taste is a chemical reaction which occurs in the minute tulip-shaped clusters of cells scattered thinly and irregularly over the tongue. There are a few "taste buds" elsewhere in the mouth, some even on the tonsils. Each bud distinguishes one of four tastes: sour, sweet, bitter, salt. Babies are born fully outfitted with taste buds-about...
...highest paid rating. They represent a class whose songs are most actively played today, receive in copyright royalties between $5,000 and $10,000 a year. There is an honorary Permanent Class A for good writers who are no longer producing songs. Such a songwriter is Gene Buck ("Tulip Time," "Hello Frisco") who gets about $2,500 for his rating but is reported to make $25,000 as the society's president. Ratings go as low as 4. Last year A. S. C. A. & P. collected about $2,000,000 which it prorated among its members. Most of that...
...made Minister to The Hague in 1927 where for the first time he earned a little leisure. All his life he had been far too busy to engender colorful stories or indulge in hobbies, but in The Hague he suddenly evinced a passionate interest for tulip bulbs. Day after day he puttered about his planting fields, fertilizing pistils with his little camel's hair brush until he finally produced a new tulip all his own. After a tour of duty as Ambassador to Moscow, Koki Hirota's big chance came last September. Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida...
...Percy Wenrich whose father was postmaster in Joplin, Mo. Wenrich and his lyricist, the late Stanley Murphy, intended their song to be "Put On Your Old Sunbonnet," sang it for Publisher Jerome Remick who got the words twisted. Wenrich wrote other songs: "Moonlight Bay," "When You Wore A Tulip," "Where Do We Go From Here?" Today, revenue from the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers where he has a permanent Class A rating pays for Wenrich's rent, lunches, his bar bill at the Lamb's Club...
...campus of St. John's College, Annapolis, stands a tulip poplar which some say is 600 years old. In its shade the white colonists made a treaty in 1652 with the Susquehannock Indians. Alumnus Francis Scott Key ("The Star-Spangled Banner") grew nostalgic beneath it in 1806 when he was trying to raise money for St. John's. Here in 1824 the old, fat, crippled Marquis de Lafayette reviewed local troops. Under this venerable poplar are held St. John's commencements every June. Last week it was the scene of the inauguration of St. John...