Word: azaleas
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...later, through Leslie Stephen lasted until 1904. Virginia's mental health in the wake of all three deaths was dangerously unstable; in 1895 she went stark mad, heard voices, grew depressed, and refused to eat. In 1904, thinking she heard birds singing in Greek and Edward rustling in the azalea hedge, she threw herself from a window...
...April Azalea Festival in Norfolk, Va., headquarters of NATO's naval command for the Atlantic, has had 17 queens over the years to smile prettily in tribute to the Alliance. In December, Sir Winston Churchill's beauteous granddaughter, Arabella Churchill, 21, said that she would be delighted to be Azalea Queen No. 18. But last week the festival made public a letter from Arabella saying she had been reading up on NATO and had decided against azaleas. "My Grandfather used the phrase 'The Iron Curtain,' " she wrote. "It seems to be that what is facing...
...presidential bedroom, for example, hangs an Impressionistic Flag Day by Childe Hassam, which is a holdover from the Kennedy Administration. Nixon also has a Red Barn painted by a previous occupant, Dwight Eisenhower. Tricia's room features a picture of azaleas, presented to her as 1968 Queen of the Norfolk Azalea Festival. Pat's taste is seen in the private sitting room and long hall. She has kept the Early American masterworks acquired by Jacqueline Kennedy and earlier tenants, but she particularly likes Impressionists and turn-of-the-century Americans. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum has lent...
Managing a bright mien despite a strep throat, Tricia Nixon arrived in Norfolk, Va., last week to be crowned Queen of the annual Azalea Festival. Tiny Tricia (she's working at bringing her weight up to 100 Ibs.) went through an exhausting round of receptions and luncheons in a series of winsome minidresses, then gave the town fathers and mothers a mild shock by showing up for the coronation in her own gown instead of the one provided by the city. There to bestow the crown was her proud father, who stole a few hours away from the White...
When Mary sends flowers to someone, it is likely to be quite a bunch. In April, as "a tiny gesture" to Lady Bird Johnson's campaign to beautify the cap ital, she sent 10,300 azalea bushes down to Washington and threw in 150 dog wood trees for good measure. Last fall m memory of her friend Susan Wagner' late wife of New York City's mayor' she planted 40 flowering cherry trees on Park Avenue-in addition to the 44 magnolia trees she had already put there and the 400 other trees...