Word: bouquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unabashedly scratched her bottom during the Haydn or from pure admiration of her musicianship, it was not yet apparent. But after a roof-raising Beethoven Fifth and a racing William Tell, there was no doubt about Gianella's acceptance. While Albert Hall stood and cheered, she took a bouquet and threw it flower by flower at her audience...
...National Board of Review picked a mixed bouquet: The Quiet Man (No. 12 on Variety'?, list of top grossers), High Noon, Limelight, Five Fingers (No. 86), The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Thief (No. 114), The Bad and the Beautiful, Singin' in the Rain, Above and Beyond, My Son John (a poor grosser, unlisted...
Needlework or Ball Games. "Lying in a hospital bed," said an A.P. dispatch from Copenhagen, "her long yellow hair curling on a pillow, [she] widened her grey-blue eyes and lifted her hands in a surprised, frightened gesture." One newsman got into her hospital room using a bouquet of flowers as a pass key. Others bombarded her with such questions as "Do you sleep in a nightgown or pajamas?" "Will you ever be a mother?" "Do you still have to shave?" "Are your interests male or female? I mean are you interested in, say, needlework, rather than" a ball game...
...ears are large and seemingly tense with listening; they belong to a man who is a born eavesdropper of human speech, machinery or a dissolving sliver of birdsong. On rainy days his slim figure strides buoyantly un der an ancient black umbrella, held aloft like a balloonman's bouquet of balloons...
Foreign Trade. In New Orleans, where he was greeted by a torchlight parade organized by the Seafarers International Union (A.F.L.), Stevenson presented his hosts a verbal bouquet ("You have made an admirable civilization. It is a jambalaya containing all that makes for the body's pleasure, the mind's delight, the spirit's repose"), then discussed foreign trade, essential to New Orleans' busy port. Said Stevenson: "The "suicidal foreign-trade fanaticism" of the Republicans, who were responsible for the Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), would kill off foreign trade, would -by not buying from Japan and Germany...