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Word: rhododendrons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Logan prize at the Chicago Art Institute, and widely hailed by liberal critics as the finest work ever to win that prize. There were able landscapes by Dale Nichols and Frederick Tellander, but there was also Contemplation by Julius Moessel, a study of a chimpanzee squatting in a rhododendron bush and gazing sentimentally at a butterfly, and there was Sophie by Macena Barton, most disdainful nude in the show, sneering at the gallery goers who gawped at her large white flanks. The Illinois group was completed by a surrealist portrait of Charlie Chaplin, the man and the character by Anita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: National Show | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

Alfred Rehder, Curator of the Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, has been awarded the Loder Rhododendron Cup for 1936 by the Royal Horticultural Society of London. This cup has been awarded annually since 1921, but only three times has it gone outside of England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rehder, Herbarium Curator, Awarded Rhododendron Cup | 3/19/1936 | See Source »

...western part of the Carolinas, the Blue Ridges with their evergreens, myrtle and wild azalea, laurel and rhododendron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1935 | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

When some poer unfortunate had the brilliant inspiration the other day to refer to a rare rhododendron as a magnificent hydrangeas, diplomatic relations were instantly severed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Portraits | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

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