Word: bouquets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laurel wreath and a bouquet of roses were placed by a Fascist usher on the desk of Signor Mussolini as the Italian Chamber assembled last week in extraordinary session. The galleries and boxes twittered and sparkled with the elect of Rome, Fascist patricians who had come to cheer Il Duce as he put through the Chamber his Defense Decrees (TIME, Nov. 15) punishing with death attempts upon his life, and virtually abrogating civil liberty in Italy...
...last week on his "grand old mare" 30,000 Polish soldiers paraded in review before him. Poles, mindful of their debt to the always temperamental and often foolhardy Marshal, cheered him. From Ostrolenka, near Warsaw, there came an old, tottering Jew who presented Dictator Pilsudski with a handsome bouquet and declared that only since the rise of the Dictator have his people received justice in Poland...
...Women's National Democratic Club. All my hostesses demonstrated their knowledge of politics to the satisfaction of Democratic party chieftains, who were also present. I wore a Paris hat, which has a rhinestone buckle, my double strand of pearls, falling almost to my waist, and a bouquet of lavender orchids, pinned to my right shoulder...
...torsos of the wives of trade-kings, a satiric turn of mind that would have made him an ornament to the House in the days of Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield. Two years ago he painted a picture of King George. The monarch's little legs protruded from a dandiacal bouquet of ribbons and stars, ermine and furbelows; his wan, overbred features looked down like a face of wax in a show window. Critics labeled the picture "The Mayfly Monarch." His Majesty rejected...
Another Life Saver. When cigarets taste nasty, when the bouquet of gin lingers, when gum drops cloy-it is soothing to champ at a hard mint tablet. Neither Life Savers Inc. nor other makers of hard candy lozenges flavored with aromatic oils-mint, cloves, pepper-have stressed in their advertising those demands for their products. None the less, they have profited therefrom, Life Savers Inc. most of all. This company is even listed on the Manhattan Stock Exchange. It has 8,000 jobbers and dealers; it makes fruit lozenges, which lack the famed Life Saver "hOle";* and shortly it will...