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Inevitably, there were the prescribed calls. Jackie journeyed to the burning ghat on the Jumna River, laid a bouquet of white roses on the spot where Gandhi was cremated in 1948. Visiting a home for vagrant boys in Delhi and the children's ward of a hospital, she made her first namastes-the Indian palms-together greeting-and tried out her Hindi ("What is your name?"). She also paid a call on India's President Rajendra Prasad at the presidential palace in New Delhi, and though she ate Western food during most of her trip, gamely dug into...
...transplanted Wellesley production takes in new soil, the Loeb will be offering a bouquet tomorrow...
Last month, when the case was finally heard, Francesco met the charges with a bouquet of flowers for Angela, which she icily rejected. The judges threw out his lawyer's plea of insanity, instead threw the book at Francesco: two years and three months for the kiss, seven months for unceasing molestation, and three months of a previously unserved sentence...
RING OF BRIGHT WATER, by Gavin Maxwell. A lyric bouquet in memory of the best pal the author ever had-a lovable, rubbery otter named Mij, who could clown like a dog, slink like a cat, and swim better than anything else that ever got wet. Maxwell respects his old friend's dignity, and never allows his recollections to become cute...
With an amazing capacity to seek out scoundrels and scold them, the muckrakers exhumed disgrace everywhere. They goaded Congress into adopting a bristling bouquet of reform legislation, gave birth to the Progressive movement, and stirred the U.S. into new social consciousness...