Word: vase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needed editing, but not this kind. With the best will in the world and the notion that Wolfe was "first of all, a poet" the publishers have anthologized 71 pieces of descriptive, rhapsodic and wistful prose from his novels and shorter works. The effect: that of sticking in a vase 71 feathers that belonged on an Indian war bonnet with wind...
...desk in the blue-walled room stood a vase of roses; on the table behind a vase of gladioli. Signs of stress were an electrically tuned radio on a chair near the fireplace, another radio near Eddie Moore's door, a calendar from which careful Secretary Moore had forgotten to tear off the August sheet...
Host Roosevelt confided his bet on the Louis-Galento fight. Wind tipped a vase of flowers and water into Herbert Lehman's lap, to the confusion of Hostess Eleanor Roosevelt. For the cameras and perhaps for solace, Democrats Stark (Missouri), Cochran (Nebraska) and Lehman ganged up with the President. At the President's feet, beaming innocently, sat a G. O. P. Governor's daughter, Anne Vanderbilt of Rhode Island, and a Democrat's daughter, Julia Holt of West Virginia...
...seven signs which include a full set of teeth in the babe, a birthmark resembling a tiger's stripes, an ability to utter the name of Buddha. But for the incarnation there are many claimants. These are weeded to three, whose names are placed in a golden vase from which, in the presence of an assembly of priests and nobles, the proper one is drawn...
...left after he had paid the minister. By 1889 the thrifty Knoxes had saved $5,000, invested every cent of it in a tiny gelatine works at Johnstown, N. Y. Last week the 325 employes of the Knox gelatine works joined in presenting 80 yellow roses in a Tiffany vase to Rose Markward Knox as "a birthday remembrance and a token of love, loyalty and appreciation from her business family." This was no empty gesture, for Mrs. Knox, despite her 80 years, still runs Knox with the same vigorous skill that in 30 years has made it a model industry...