Word: bouquet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still more money out of the Federal Treasury for local relief. Hardly had bald, hawknosed T. Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, opened the first session than the keynote of the Conference was struck by Fiorello H. ("Little Flower") LaGuardia of New York City, loudest bloom in the mayoral bouquet...
...Alice's finger, repeating after the Archbishop of Canterbury: "With this ring I thee wed. With my body I thee worship. And with all my worldly goods I thee endow!" At the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey that evening, a late-straying canon found a bouquet with a royal card: "From the Duchess of Gloucester." In their own special train the new Duchess and the Duke left London to honeymoon at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, a favorite country seat of the bride's late father loaned by her brother Walter, the new Duke of Buccleuch...
...large, light room with a round table in the centre, covered with a white tablecloth and a bouquet of flowers. There were also a couch, a bed and some chairs...
Governor Alf Landon clutched the bouquet to his bosom where he was already holding one tossed that morning from California (see below). But the Republican enemies of Republicans Curtis and Landon could not let the ceremony pass. Was it, they asked, a bouquet from a bride or a skunk cabbage from a scullery maid? What right had Charles Curtis to speak for Kansas? What right had he to propose a candidate for President? By way of answer, they produced a note written by Mr. Curtis to the tax assessor of Shawnee County, Kans. giving notice that he had transferred...
...breast of Charles Curtis, who ran unsuccessfully for re-election as Vice President in 1932, all hope of recovering political prestige is not dead. Last week he allowed his hope of playing a part in 1936 to get the better of him. Like a bride throwing her bouquet, he took careful aim and tossed his Presidential endorsement over the heads of other Republican hopefuls to a man from his native State...