Word: bouquet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What else is left for the Sophomore President, the Junior President, the Senior President, and all their co-incumbents to do? I think this is an excellent time to abolish an outgrown sinecure. Henceforth let us bouquet our friends, not with ballots, but with the Heroic Couplet and the Shakespearian Sonnet if need be! Eugene Du Bois...
...large basket of chrysanthemums-about $25 worth. Who could have sent it? His good friends Senator George Higgins Moses or Col. Hanford MacNider? Publisher McCormick of the Tribune? William Wrigley, Jr.? Adman Albert Davis Lasker? Or even "W. R." (Hearst) himself? The Colonel grubbed eagerly through the bouquet for a card, found none. Then he became aware of a sly smile on the face of a rotund, grey-haired man standing near. Boomed the Colonel: "You old sonofagun! I knew it was you!" and the other man waddled off contentedly...
...Troubadour Downey had any doubts about his own importance they were doubtless resolved last month when he saw the front page of the tabloid New York Mirror almost entirely occupied by a photograph of his wife. A wily cameraman gained admittance to her hospital by bringing a large bouquet. In the bouquet was hidden a camera...
...Baker of Portland, Ore. The bride was Mrs. Claire Skeel Baker who said: "We were originally married at Medford, Ore. in 1911 but we're glad to have it ratified in France."† After Mayor Meyer had performed the service in the Hotel de Ville, the bridal bouquet was placed on the tomb of the local Unknown Soldier...
...suggesting that it might be withdrawn. Briand himself had said sturdily, "I resigned-it was my duty, wasn't it?" On leaving Paris, cheered wildly at the station by a French crowd in which prominent Frenchmen were conspicuous by their absence, M. Briand had accepted a large bouquet of red roses from a young woman, apparently of the working class. Her face was tearstained. Overcome by emotion she managed to gasp, "I-I love you, Monsieur le President!" For a moment the old, defeated man standing at the door of his Pullman did not reply. Then accepting the roses...