Word: bouquets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty two more alleged plotters against the President's life were held in custody last week, may suffer a similar fate. The nature of their conspiracy is still concealed. Allegedly, there were several plans: 1) To hand the President a bouquet containing a bomb. 2) To attack his motor in some lonely place. 3) To poison...
Prologue. Cardinal Mundelein had promised his Pope a "spiritual bouquet of a million communions" (TIME, May 31). He furnished them, and more, by skillfully organized work. The communicants were not lacking. But the archdiocese contains only 353 churches. So on Sunday, the first day of the Congress, hundreds of priests began to celebrate mass at 5:00 a. m. and repeated every half hour thereafter. The churches accounted for 5,195 masses. Enough services were held in private chapels to make the total pass the 6,000 mark...
...tulle embroidered with pearls, wearing a tiara of diamonds, the blazing Order of the Garter, many another twinkly gem of price and a train of Irish point lace. As the supreme moments ticked on, many of the 300-odd female presentees glanced nervously at the back of a court bouquet. Therein had been embedded against ultimate emergencies a tiny mirror. The curtsying began...
...with a court train of the same lace. Her veil was of tulle with a circlet of pearls about the brow and held in place by a spray of orange blossoms on each side. She wore long sleeves, and her dress came within ten inches of the floor. Her bouquet was voluminous with white orchids and lilies of the valley. She wore a string of pearls...
...Florist. The gatherer of this spiritual bouquet to Pope Pius XI and so to the Catholic Church which is the Bride of Christ, is His Eminence, George William Cardinal Mundelein...