Word: tulips
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Seedlings & Bulbs. Worcester is even gaining materially from Fontaine's trip: Boy Scouts in Stockholm are sending 1,000 pine seedlings this spring to Boy Scouts in Worcester; Dutch tulip growers flew 250 bulbs to Worcester where they have been planted in the city common. The Vienna Choir Boys dedicated a lullaby to Worcester; and Louis Barthe, chef at Maxim's in Paris, invented a new dish called langue de boeuf à la Worcester (recipe: soak beef tongue for six days in bay leaves, then boil and serve with a heavy port wine sauce...
...staid, ten-minute monologue by the staid BBC's Edward Halliday. Then Sir Gerald broke into Halliday's lukewarm praise of a Rembrandt self-portrait. "My dear fellow," he boomed, "that's a bloody work of genius." Pointing out a drop of water on a tulip, Sir Gerald cried: "Look at that confounded drop of water. Looks as if it might fall off any moment. That's sheer damned skill." Of Rembrandt's A Man in Armour: "I just go all goo-goo when I stand in front...
...rose") must have been a bulbous plant, probably a narcissus; the original Hebrew word for it means "bulb." Other "roses" were oleanders, anemones, tumbleweeds or crocuses. The biblical "Rose of Sharon" was not the modern rose of Sharon (a kind of hibiscus introduced from China), but probably a tulip...
...first test is the visual test. Holding the tulip-shaped glass up to the 'light, each member carefully guages the color of the wine and tries to describe it. The most common colors are ruby, garnet, topaz, amber, or green-gold. The wine is also examined for sedimentation and described as either cloudy or clear. The viscosity is examined to determine whether the wine is syrupy, oily, or watery...
Last week Yukio Ozaki was once more showing gratitude toward the U.S. Wispy but indomitable, he had flown the Pacific to thank Americans for their postwar aid. Brandishing a tulip-shaped ear trumpet, he told New York reporters, "If you think Japan is [now] becoming a democracy, you are mistaken. Japan is getting worse...