Word: bouquet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white-ruled Southern Rhodesia. Immediately the government fired Fuller-Sandys as an adviser in the Native Affairs Department, curtly explaining: "You cannot administer Africans and sleep with them." Of 48 white friends Fuller-Sandys invited to the wedding last week, 34 sent their regrets. The beaming bride, carrying a bouquet of white dahlias and wearing a white satin gown, had three African bridesmaids for the ceremony on Fuller-Sandys' veranda, performed by the Rev. Richard Hughes, rector of an Anglican church at Que Que 64 miles away. That night, under a full moon, the wedded couple attended an African...
Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy, 36, wearing a pale blue dress of silk shantung and carrying a bouquet of spring flowers, and Nelson Rockefeller, 54, were married by the Rev. Marshall L. Smith, a Presbyterian who is pastor of the interdenominational Union Church of Pocantico Hills. Margaretta is also a Presbyterian; Rockefeller is a Baptist. Only a dozen persons, members of both families, were present...
...Chinese wine maker she met in Hong Kong even sent two magnums of Dragon, Tiger & Phoenix, vintage '58, whose rare bouquet is obtained by steeping 200 snakes, five civets and ten storks in a vat of rice wine. Administered daily, explained its maker, D.T. & P. will keep Mr. and Mrs. Ogilvy in good health, make their marriage happy and, for good measure, preserve them from rheumatism. Poet Laureate John Masefield put it more elegantly, without wine...
Lovely Rival. King Hassan even produced a rival for Jackie in his lovely young sister, Princess Lalla Nezha, 22, who was greeted with a bouquet of red roses. All the proper protocol was laid on, from a 50-yd. red carpet to a spit and polish honor guard. "We are proud to welcome you. Your Majesty," said the President to the King. "Your country was the first to recognize the U.S. in the most difficult days of our Revolution."* King Hassan responded by saying that he had come to the U.S. "to renew my acquaintance with your people, to meet...
...greatest Boris. Petrov came to town with 40 Ibs. of jeweled costumes and the rank of "Artist of the Soviet People." His Boris is ideologically and politically rehabilitated: "He is touched by the misery of the Russian people he tried to help," Petrov says. In Paris, Petrov brought a bouquet of flowers to Chaliapin's grave in the Batignolles Cemetery, then disclaimed the master's influence with a fashionable Russian proverb: "Better a bad originality than a perfect copy...