Word: rhododendrons
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Ever since Mussolini's troops marched over his tiny kingdom of Albania, former King Zog, like many another D.P., has been looking for a place to put down roots. Last week he found just what he wanted: a 60-room mansion bordered with a half mile of rhododendron bushes, plus 100-odd acres of rich farm land, on Long Island. It was a barter deal, reported the New York Times. Short on cash, Zog had plunked down "a bucket of diamonds and rubies" in a royal exchange. The King's spokesmen hastily sent out frantic denials. The King...
...suburbs [of Larchmont, Glen Cove and Scarsdale] in his life, he was nevertheless very likely to end up finally in [a cemetery ] named Oakmont or Woodland." And where Sir Walter failed, estate agents of the boom 1920s often succeeded. The town of Mosquito became Troutdale, Zigzag switched to Rhododendron, Screamerville to Chancellor, Bee Pee to the more progressive Chevrolet. Recently named post offices include XRay, Radio, Gasoline, Tarzan, Gene Autry...
...expert archers who gathered for the five-day hunt through Chattahoochee's forests and tangled rhododendron "hells" got lots of sage advice from Ranger Woody: >-"The way to get a deer is to find a gap and then sit down and wait. A gap is a low place between mountain peaks. It is a place both deer and humans seek to cross mountains. Deer are just as lazy as humans. > "If you fire your arrow at a deer and think you've hit him, sit down, fill your pipe. Smoke it all the way through. Then...
...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...
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...