Word: calla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upon the centre of the rainsoaked grave of Flier Floyd Bennett in Arlington National Cemetery was laid a wreath of ferns and calla lilies sent by President Coolidge. Two days later President Coolidge went to the chamber of the House of Representatives and gazed, during a state funeral service, at the catafalque and bier of his dead friend and Flood Control spokesman, Representative Martin Barnaby Madden of Illinois...
...were small, stirring ponds of faces. There were puddles of them under many other pictures: Italian Antonio Donghi's study of three enigmatic figures, called "Carnival," which received first honorable mention; "Two Figures," languid, graceful girls painted by Bernard Karfiol of Manhattan, honorable mention. Then there were the "Calla Lillies" almost sticky with pollen as they poked stiffly from a vase, which brought Max Pechstein of Germany the $500 prize offered by the Allegheny County Garden Club...
...Public Lands called, among others, Mrs. Georgia Hamon Rohrer, widow of Jake L. Hamon, oil man who was supposed to have had a hand in the nomination of Mr. Harding in 1920. She traveled from Chicago at the public expense and entered the witness stand carrying a large calla lily in her hand. A colloquy ensued...