Word: bouquets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teresa was too proud ever to unbend. Trapped in the circumscribed respectability of suburban Sydney, she also shrank from the thought of becoming a spinster schoolma'am. At her cousin's wedding, when the other girls fought in a "concupiscent fever" to catch the bride's bouquet, Teresa drew back when she saw their "awful eagerness...
...religious goodwill. His theory: "John Smith must meet Jacob Epstein and get to know him as a human being." He put his theory into practice by taking Protestant young people to a synagogue service. On his first day at the Herald, Editor Bucke had on his desk a huge bouquet from Mattapan's Orthodox Jewish Synagogue...
...Norman cemetery last week a little French girl, smiling with the maternal pride and pleasure of a little girl doing a womanly job, placed a bouquet of fresh summer flowers atop a fresh mound of earth. The grave was quite new, and efficiently spaded; two shovels stood stiffly at its side. Beneath the fresh Normandy flowers and the earth lay an American, killed before he had so much as seen a German...
...called "liberated" in the strictest sense of the word. Well, I entered Partisan territory ten miles behind the fighting line, traveled 25 miles in an automobile, saw a Partisan train, and visited the last session of the Anti-Fascist Youth Congress. Now three barefoot urchins are arranging a bouquet of cherry blossoms by a pool under a huge walnut tree. This is liberated enough...
American Story has produced some interesting effects. One was a contemporary account of the 1763 defeat of Pontiac and his Indians by a Swiss Colonel named Henri Bouquet at the Battle of Bushy Run. Wrote the Provost of the College of Philadelphia at the time: "Those who have only experienced the severities and dangers of a campaign in Europe, can scarcely form an idea of what is to be done and endured in an American war. . . . In an American campaign everything is terrible; the face of the country, the climate, the enemy. There is no refreshment for the healthy...