Word: bouquets
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...most applause are Tamara Toumanova, Tatiana Riabouchinska and Irina Baronova, all in their teens. Toumanova, a dark-skinned Caucasian, was born on a train in Siberia as her parents were attempting to escape from the Revolution. At 7, in Paris, she was praised by Pavlova who gave her a bouquet; Toumanova still cherishes its withered leaves and dried-up blossoms...
...their belts came goose-stepping smartly into the Cathedral Square and were reviewed by a real GERMAN GENERAL in full uniform with twinkling medals, Lieut. General Günther von Kluge. As a climax a tiny Rhineland girl toddled up to von Kluge, gave the general his own big bouquet of red car nations. After this solemn moment all was jollification and singing of "Now we have soldiers again!" in the streets of Old Cologne. One young sprig went about bellowing: "Turn all our fine new buildings into barracks...
...still more money out of the Federal Treasury for local relief. Hardly had bald, hawknosed T. Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, opened the first session than the keynote of the Conference was struck by Fiorello H. ("Little Flower") LaGuardia of New York City, loudest bloom in the mayoral bouquet...
...Alice's finger, repeating after the Archbishop of Canterbury: "With this ring I thee wed. With my body I thee worship. And with all my worldly goods I thee endow!" At the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey that evening, a late-straying canon found a bouquet with a royal card: "From the Duchess of Gloucester." In their own special train the new Duchess and the Duke left London to honeymoon at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, a favorite country seat of the bride's late father loaned by her brother Walter, the new Duke of Buccleuch...
...large, light room with a round table in the centre, covered with a white tablecloth and a bouquet of flowers. There were also a couch, a bed and some chairs...