Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rearmament authorization bill (TIME, March 13). Besides upping the authorized strength of the Air Corps to 6,000 planes, the Senate, at the behest of Wyoming's Harry H. Schwartz, voted to train Negroes in at least one school for Army fledglings. Behind Mr. Schwartz were flower-tongued Negro Edgar G. Brown of United Government Employes, Inc., Editor Robert L. Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, many another colored advocate of racial balance in the U. S. Army & Navy...
Present at the opening of Manhattan's 1939 International Flower Show were two newcomers: Dorothy Thompson (a pearly-blue sweet pea) and Brendo (a white-petaled, crimson-lipped orchid...
...middle of the corrupt business which it is trying to clean up) it has told of Yale's perverted passion for "campus prestige." Everyone, we are informed, dives into the rough-and-tumble for extra-curricular honors. No place at Yale for the lonely stag, the wall flower; every man has to make his "Y" in something or other. Studies can ride--they're not important. But the canker is even more loathsome than this; for almost every "activities" man is living a lie. He doesn't write for the Record or the News because he likes to, but because...
What happened here was that a spanish bum and red did throw some Orange peels at a german marine while they paid their respect to our great martyr "Marti" at his monument with a flower design...
...eating tree" in Madagascar. A sojourner in Brazil said he saw a tree which attracted monkeys by means of a peculiar odor, hemmed them in a prison of leaves, dropped their bare bones after three days. Centuries ago a very tall tale popped up about a gigantic Death Flower on a South Pacific island which lured human victims inside its fragrant cavern, put them pleasantly to sleep, destroyed them with acid...