Word: bouquets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prefectural tour," Japan's Emperor Hirohito took Empress Nagako back to volcano-surrounded Lake Inawashiro, where the pair spent their August 1924 honeymoon. Reveling in well-remembered sights, the Emperor solicitously helped his wife over craggy spots, won an affectionate smile by graciously passing on to her a bouquet of alpine flowers presented to him by a local botanist. Carried away by such uxorious behavior on the part of the man who once was a god, the chief Imperial chamberlain sighed sentimentally: "Just a sweet, middle-aged couple...
...Hayden, 83, now stands third in line of succession to the White House (after Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn). Last week the Arizona Democrat won an even more impressive title: first lady-pleaser of the land. Hayden's credentials, as proclaimed by a bouquet-bearing delegation from the League of Women Voters: he is the only incumbent Congressman to have voted for the 19th Amendment, which ushered in female suffrage...
...Institut de Puériculture, a hospital for premature infants, she accepted a bouquet of sweet peas, admired the babies, and observed that her daughter Caroline detested flashbulbs. The president of the Paris Municipal Council presented her with a tiny wristwatch, was rewarded with a smile. Then there was a quick trip to flower-decked Malmaison, the Empress Josephine's country retreat, and a gourmet lunch (lobster thermidor, mousse aux fraises des bois, and three wines) at La Celle St. Cloud, the long-ago hideaway of Mme. de Pompadour. And capping it all was the gala evening at the Palace...
Working in a delicate, naturalistic key, Director Zurlini seems to be tossing an old-fashioned bouquet to the memory of pre-beat youth. The English titles are trite, the story thin, but Zurlini has meshed his moods nicely, cast his players lovingly, and photographed them with shimmering beauty. It is because they are simple and plausible people that this slight cinema is also oddly touching...
Rome's Quirinal Palace, Florentines broke through police lines three times to see her, Communist workers in Milan applauded her. But in Milan's La Scala opera house, things went to the other extreme. There the Queen accepted a bouquet from young dancers, joined Prince Philip and eight companions in the majestic isolation of the royal box, surrounded by 3,230 empty seats, as 200 singers and musicians staged a special, twelve-minute performance of the second-act finale of Lucia di Lammermoor...