Word: vegetales
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Marvy is a substantial, pink-faced man with a sandy mustache and a booming voice. He has three Dutch Masters cigars and a ballpoint pen in the breastpocket of his suit. But it isn't hard to change the ballpoint to a fountain pen, erase a few facial lines...
The eclecticism of Beardsley and his follower, Charles Ricketts, can be seen to derive from the Art Nouveau habit of overstatement and slickness. Likewise, the Nouveau penchant for vegetal forms led to the functionless fantasies in glass of Louis Tiffany, America's gifted designer. The most interesting forms of his...
Last week, reinforced by their new allies, the Communists tried again. This time their bill did not mention Coca-Cola by name. It gave the Health Minister power to forbid the sale of beverages containing "certain vegetal products," i.e., those in Coke. The bill, with both Communist and M.R.P. support...
In the noisy shadow of the Ninth Avenue L, at 47th street, Manhattan, there is a tiny grocery store bristling with progress. First glance reveals no striking difference from myriad other stores; glance two does. A placard reads: "Nothing in this store over 5 & 10 cents." There are other wall...
Prof. Goodale advocated the teaching of botany to children and defined clearly the parts of the subject which he thought within their grasp. They may study the outward form and more or less of the inward, cell structure of plants; the underlying idea, the vegetal morphology, may also be discovered...