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...journey to Omaha Mr. Coolidge appeared repeatedly on the observation platform where crowds had assembled at stations. He smiled, and nodded but declined to speak except at Flora, 111., where he thanked citizens for a bouquet of flowers, presented in honor of his wedding anniversary of the day before...
...deck of the Majestic stood Jules Mast-baum, cinema magnate. He submitted to the routine of cameras and notebooks with such a look of satisfaction as a man might wear who had just nipped off the end of a fine cigar or buried his nose in the bouquet of an old bottle...
...space to Europe, returning to circle some more, with a louder buzz about an "independent college" to be founded for three millions with the aid of friends (TIME, June 25, 1923 et seq; Sept. 15, 1924). At one point, the students of Knox College informally extended a bouquet to the buzzing one, in the shape of their presidential chair (TIME, Dec. 29), but the circling continued, not only because the Knox trustees were silent but (thought the public) because the "independent college" was still in the making. Evidently it is still in the making, for the bee last week gave...
...were suddenly possessed of a curious emotion. Their eyes raced down the column. "The bride," they read, "wore a gown of white satin trimmed with old rose point lace and cut with a court train. Her veil of tulle was held with orange blossoms and she carried a shower bouquet of white orchids and lilies of the valley." An amazing picture rose in the minds of the Tory breakfasters-that of a fashionable church, wall-eyed ushers, pretty bridesmaids, a young bridegroom of an excellent Washington family and, amid all the diaphaneity of lace and flowers so dewily described...
...bear with jointed limbs on the desk, a nickel-plated key to a hospital city, a seashell, and a model electric locomotive* a row of reference books, an ash tray, which usually . . . has in it six or more white paper cigar holders, with quill mouth pieces, 'a matutinal bouquet, a pencil rack with ten sharpened pencils, a row of mother-of-pearl push buttons. Another found that the President never took off his suit coat while at work. A third ascertained that he did not like angling, swimming, riding, golf...