Word: floral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Torrio. The two worked well together. In four years Capone & Torrio ruled Cicero, the Chicago suburb whose name has been notorious ever since. Only disputant of their power was Dion O'Banion, on Chicago's North Side, who ran a flower shop as a sideline, specialized in floral pieces for gangster funerals, a highly lucrative trade. O'Banion said he hated Wops. One November noonday three men came to his shop, riddled him with bullets and left him sprawling on a pile of ferns. Among the tributes around O'Banion's $10,000 casket...
...books Coffin tries to bear witness that poetry, or at least his kind of poetry, begins at home. "Poetry," to Coffin, "is saying the best one can about life." In his early work Coffin tried to say his best about life by loading his lines with mythological, chivalric, floral and religious references. But he soon came under the influence of Robert Frost (TIME, May 15), whose work helped him to see "poetry in common speech and people and in usual sights...
Walance S. Davies 3G, of Floral Park, N. Y.; Thomas P. Dillon 1G, of Clinton, Mo.; Erich A. Fivian 2G, of Bern, Switzerland; Donald L. Foley, A.B. Colgate '38, of Syracuse, N. Y.; Edward W. Fox, assistant in History at Harvard, of Cambridge, Mass.; Hans W. Gatzke 1G, of Krefold, Germany; James E. Gunckel, Oxford, O., now graduate student at Miami University; Ralph S. Henderson now teaching at MacJannet Country Day School, St. Cloud, France; Henry R. Hope 1G, of Darien, Conn.; Andrew O. Jaszi 1G, of Oberlin, O.; Milan W. Jerabek, of Minneapolis, Minn., now teaching at University...
...memorial of John Huss, martyred Czech hero who fought for reform of the Catholic Church and was burned at the stake in 1415. On the eve of Conqueror Hitler's birthday, thousands of bunches of primroses soon made a bright carpet about the Huss memorial and in floral letters four feet high appeared the hopeful Czechs' national motto: Pravda Vitezi ("Truth Prevails"). Knowing well that such a sentiment is obnoxious to their Nazi masters, sorrowful Czech policemen removed the decorations...
City Councilman Michael A. ("Mickey the Dude") Sullivan reentered Harvard's political arena last Saturday night when in his capacity as a local truckman he exported a symbolical load of sand, a large horse-shoe floral wreath, three canaries and six pigeons from the Independents, conservative political group to a dance in the Hotel Statler given by the Affiliated Jewish Youth Organization to raise money to send Jewish refugees to Palestine...