Word: boxwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gracie has ingratiated herself with millions of Americans in such mad trifles as her One Finger Piano Concerto, her plugs for Sponsor Carnation Milk ("I don't see how they get milk from carnations"), her weakness for clipping her boxwood hedge with George's electric razor. In the '30 she popped up all over the dial looking for her supposedly lost brother, a long-running gag that drove her real, unlost brother, a San Francisco accountant, into hiding. In desperation, he wired Gracie: "Can't you make a living any other...
...these leveling times when British professional men clip their own boxwood and their wives push their own prams, London exhibits no district more decorous and decorative than St. John's Wood. But in Queen Victoria's gilded reign a century ago, this first of the city's garden suburbs had another reputation. Then noble Britons liked to steal away from their confining Mayfair mansions and visit leafy little hideaways in St. John's Wood. There George IV and Napoleon III kept their well-hidden mistresses; beauteous Lily Langtry waited for Edward VII at 20 Wellington Road...
...Shame!" In the National Guard Armory the air was fragrant with thousands of blossoms. Soft music wafted across the dappled, indoor, 1¾ acres, and Ike's entrance caused a mob scene. The President's first stop was at a 5O-ft. bower of white tulips, English boxwood, azaleas, dogwood and rhododendron, which had been planted in honor of Mamie and would be transplanted intact to the Eisenhower farm in Gettysburg, Pa. Ike was particularly impressed by a shoulder-high serpentine wall that enclosed the garden; he had never seen one before...
After lunch at Virginia House, a handsome Tudor mansion on the banks of the James River, Ike and Mamie motored through intermittent rain and hail showers to Fredericksburg, where the President placed a pungent boxwood wreath on the monument to Mary Washington, mother of the first President. In Fredericksburg, Ike met two lively old ladies. Mrs. Julia Link Wine and her twin sister, Mrs. Martha Link Quick, 85, who had gone to school with Ike's mother and turned out to be his distant cousins. He had come to Fredericksburg, said the President, "to pay tribute to the state...
...legs; Plainclothesman Joseph H. Downs toppled over, shot in the stomach and chest. There was one last cacophony of shots, shouts and tinkling glass. The first gunman, bending over, frantically trying to reload, was hit and sprawled out, hat awry, heels kicking; the second lurched backward over a low boxwood hedge, stone dead with a bullet through his ears...