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...Massachusetts Horticultural Society held it annual Flower Show last week in the Mechanics Building in Boston. By Friday, a few of the flowers were drooping a bit, but most of the show was intact. On our way in we stopped to read a notice entitled "License of Concert or Entertainment on the Lord's Day" which was posted near the entrance, and we discovered that the Flower Show "must not be advertised by pictorial posters or placards of an obscene nature" and further, that no person attending could "wear a head covering which obstructs the view of another spectator." Since...
...wrote . . . Nowhere [did she name] that fine old Southern aristocrat who was the father of the Bulloch belle who married the first T.R. . . . The reason . . . might be that his name was Rufus Bulloch, sometimes spelled Bullock, one of the foulest rascals of a day when rascality was truly in flower; a thief, embezzler, grafter, a veritable Quisling, and ... a scalawag...
...wall, a few drill sergeants here and there are fighting a magnificent rearguard action. When "positive swearing" fails to impress their rookies, these dauntless bulldogs fall back on the finer, far-more-difficult art of "negative swearing," i.e., not swearing at all. This art is shown in its finest flower by the following little story, told by a desperate physical instructor to his squad...
...Freshmen Flower Vendors...
...Time to Talk. Evening Moscow's "brigade" of reporters singled out the Express, on Flower Boulevard, for the brunt of their criticism. "The projection hall is in a very pitiful state," they wrote. "The walls are peeling and dirty, the chairs are broken. The customers have to sit in the dark before the show starts. Those who sit in the last rows get frozen, because the exit into the street is just behind them. The screen cannot be seen well from the last rows. When the customers complain, the manager explains: 'You cannot see if you are small...