Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked down for a place to land. But Pilot Purchase was over Coney Island on a Sunday afternoon, and all he could see was 800,000 people in bathing suits. A hundred feet behind the beach was the only open space, Dreamland Park: a few tennis courts and flower beds. He dropped quickly, barely missing one hump of a roller coaster, bumped his Waco down in Dreamland, made a mess of the flower beds, was slightly cut about the face...
...French flags and drawn by a blue and gold locomotive, drew into Paris at a newly decorated station in the Bois de Boulogne, used only on visits of State. Their Majesties' arrival in Paris was signaled by releasing 10,000 white "Doves of Peace" from a huge, flower-decked cage. The 2.000,000 citizens of Paris who had turned out to sing and cheer realized in advance that they would scarcely glimpse Their Majesties, for every Frenchman knew that Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut was going to take excessive measures for their protection-and knew...
...cabin of her Vultee bomber flower-filled by proud Turks, Turkey's "Flying Amazon," 24-year-old Pilot-Major Sabiha Gökeen (adopted daughter of President Kamâl Atatürk hopped off on a good-will flight to Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest...
Anna Jarvis is the 60-year-old Philadelphia spinster who invented Mother's Day. Whenever she thinks of what the flower shops, the candy stores, the telegraph companies have done with her idea, she is disgusted. She has even incorporated Mother's Day to help keep unscrupulous florists and confectioners from using her patented trademark for commercial purposes. But "nobody," she says, "pays any attention to law any more...
...bedside and asked her if he had been the first Governor to get aboard the bandwagon. Tenderheartedly she said yes, but actually the Governor of North Dakota, she says, beat him to it by several days. Then in 1914 President Wilson issued a National proclamation and the flower stores began to sense the possibilities. Miss Jarvis started her hopeless, 25-year fight against commercialism...