Word: blossoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is no spring in Cambridge, the sky is wet and gray, But it's blossom time at the Shubert, chez Messrs, Lee and J. For a bit of Old Vienna is houseguest...
Married. Genevieve Garner, 18, only granddaughter of ex-Vice President John Nance Garner, onetime black-eyed queen of Virginia's Apple Blossom Festival; and John James Currie Jr., Panhandle ranching scion; as Cactus Jack, hampered slightly by recent dental alterations, beamed from the family pew; in Amarillo...
Japan's grave-faced Emperor Hirohito last week wrapped himself in a silken robe embroidered with the sacred Paulownia blossom and stepped into the innermost sanctuary of the Imperial Palace to worship his mythological ancestress, the Sun Goddess, celebrating the ascension to the throne 2,601 years ago of his lineal ancestor, the great Emperor Jimmu. Aside from the fact, of no great importance, that there is no historical evidence that Jimmu ever existed, there was a striking difference between the two ceremonies 2.601 years apart: whereas Jimmu had given thanks to the Sun Goddess after his conquest...
After the motorcade had passed, the sad-faced peons stood in little clumps for hours, looking like bunches of dry cactus blossom in their earthy blues, reds, yellows, talking of the parade of the Señor Henry Wallace. They said that he was of much sympathy, a plougher of ground like themselves, a gringo with the proper sort of gentle eyes. They put too much emphasis on his first name, for he spoke a kind of Spanish and they supposed that like Hispano-Mexicans he used both parents' names, Henry for his father, Wallace after his mother...
Last week was chrysanthemum time in Japan. The islands were almost as lovely as in the cherry-blossom season. The annual chrysanthemum season, coincident with the anniversary of the late Emperor Meiji's birthday, was celebrated all over Japan with especial excitement: Emperor Hirohito chose it to mark the 2,600th Anniversary of the fair-weather day when Jimmu took on power...