Word: orchid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torch singer in Chicago's best nightclubs, got all dressed up for a ceremony that made her No. 1 woman of the C.I.O.'s United Steel Workers. She laid aside her welder's apron and toolmaker's slacks, flounced into her party clothes, pinned an orchid to her shoulder and was off to her local's big celebration...
Died. Sir Jeremiah Colman, 82, millionaire mustard maker and famed orchid collector; in Reigate, England. Chairman of the board of J. & J. Colman, Ltd., founded by his grandfather, developed by his father, he liked to explain that his wealth was made "not by the mustard people ate, but by the mustard left on their plates...
...better than I am. He's even taller than I am." In his tribute, Joe was not merely being nice to a clever amateur. Young Leo Brady, already a full-fledged dramatic professional, wrote the play version of Richard Connell's gangster story Brother Orchid, which was sold to Warner Bros., filmed in 1940 with Edward G. Robinson...
Finally, I've always had the impression that a House dance with a Harvard band lends a note of informality that's always welcome, even at a white tie and orchid affair. Last week at Winthrop, a lot of the fun was due purely to the fact that three was a nice domestic atmosphere, what with everybody coming up to request We Three and ask the lead alto for his Ec 61 notes. Well, maybe I'm all wet, but those are the kind of dances I like, and I hope we have more of them...
Sixteen hundred ships a year called at Pará (now Belém do Pará); and a thousand miles up the orchid-stinking Amazon ocean freighters pulled up to the $40,000,000 stone pier and floating dock at Manaus. They took away a single cargo, bolachas (crude rubber balls). They brought a more varied one: pink tiles, champagne, pâté de foie gras, grand pianos, gold watches, diamond rings, French lingerie for rubber kings' naked native wives, French mistresses to replace them. Manaus went cultural, built a $5,000,000 opera house, closed it again...