Word: bouquets
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...chancel hedged with tall cypress trees, boxwood and more chrysanthemums, Groom Rockefeller ended the ceremony with the unusual words, "With this ring I thee wed and promise thee a husband's protection and care." The bride wore a short veil, severe gown, long train; she carried a bouquet of white pansies and white orchids with mauve centres; the bridesmaids wore short veils instead of hats. Best man: Brother Nelson Aldrich. Ushers: groom's three brothers, one cousin, one brother-in-law, Princetonites Edward W. Brown ('28), Roommate Benson Blake III ('29), William F. Cochran Jr. ('29), Homer P. Cochran...
There are enough good tunes to keep Miss Moore's voice occupied, though you must expect no such light, such elusive bouquet as comes from the vintage of old Savoy...
What else is left for the Sophomore President, the Junior President, the Senior President, and all their co-incumbents to do? I think this is an excellent time to abolish an outgrown sinecure. Henceforth let us bouquet our friends, not with ballots, but with the Heroic Couplet and the Shakespearian Sonnet if need be! Eugene Du Bois...
...large basket of chrysanthemums-about $25 worth. Who could have sent it? His good friends Senator George Higgins Moses or Col. Hanford MacNider? Publisher McCormick of the Tribune? William Wrigley, Jr.? Adman Albert Davis Lasker? Or even "W. R." (Hearst) himself? The Colonel grubbed eagerly through the bouquet for a card, found none. Then he became aware of a sly smile on the face of a rotund, grey-haired man standing near. Boomed the Colonel: "You old sonofagun! I knew it was you!" and the other man waddled off contentedly...
...Troubadour Downey had any doubts about his own importance they were doubtless resolved last month when he saw the front page of the tabloid New York Mirror almost entirely occupied by a photograph of his wife. A wily cameraman gained admittance to her hospital by bringing a large bouquet. In the bouquet was hidden a camera...