Word: cactus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the first visitor crossed its threshold, more than 2,500,000 have wandered along the Huntington's magnificent cactus beds, orange groves and flower gardens, stopped to peer at the library's $50,000 Gutenberg Bible, and climbed the art gallery's marble stairs to take whispered popularity polls among the portraits. To San Marino each year come scholars to dig through treasures that range from the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript (best text of the Canterbury Tales) to the manuscript of Stevenson's Kidnapped...
...intimates in the writing of memoirs.* With Garner's blessing, Washington Correspondent Bascom N. Timmons, a crony of his Washington days, drew on his own notes and memory, started the ex-Vice President's story last week in Collier's. Some milk and thorns from Cactus Jack...
John Nance Garner made some amends to history. After announcing last month that he had built a bonfire of his political records, "Cactus Jack" relented and gave the University of Texas 34 scrapbooks he had preserved. Thirty contained old newspaper clips, but four were a treasure house of place cards, menus, invitations to luncheons, plus a daily social squib in Mrs. Garner's own hand...
...Uvalde, Tex. pecan farm last week, "Cactus Jack" Garner, Roosevelt's old Vice President, dropped a bit of news calculated to discourage publishers, biographers, and ghostwriters. Not only had he decided not to write his memoirs, he had dumped the letters and records of his 38 years in Washington into a big bonfire and burned them...
...first glance the colors looked muddy or sometimes acidly off-register. Tamayo's figures lifted swollen hands and feet, like anthropomorphic cactus plants, and stared from flat, featureless heads. Behind them the fuzzy skies were scratched with schoolboy diagrams of the constellations. But for fans of Rufino Tamayo the distorted figures seemed perfectly adjusted to their painted world, and the star-spangled night skies (a new element in Tamayo's work) seemed to suggest the era of science...