Word: chrysanthemumed
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...followers bathed his body, tied a white loincloth around his waist and a towel around his shoulders, and placed him on a wooden pedestal in a sitting position, with legs crossed. Rose, jasmine and chrysanthemum garlands were hung around his neck. Camphor and incense were burned. Devotees recited prayers and a chant, composed by Gandhi, imploring God to grant wisdom to all. Hundreds came from all parts of Madras city, filed past the body of the man they now regarded as a martyr...
...dark grey 1951 Cadillac with the 16-petal imperial chrysanthemum crest upon it, Emperor Hirohito made an official call on Supreme Allied Commander Matthew B. Ridgway. It was the 14th courtesy call of the conquered on the conqueror, and the last. Soon after, Ridgway returned the visit, then went home to prepare for his new assignment in Europe...
...pneumonia; in Manhattan. The prototype of Novelist Joel Sayre's political satire, Hizzoner the Mayor, O'Brien kept his constituents constantly amused with his malaprop oratory (Sample: "That scientist of scientists, Albert Weinstein"), cooperated with pressagents by accepting such titles as "Ole-Bo-Lon, the Scentless Chrysanthemum" from a Chinese restaurant, habitually referred to New York as "this great metropolis city." So loyal was he to Tammany that when reporters once asked if he had picked a new police commissioner, his reply became apolitical classic: "I haven't had any word on that...
...dealer had good news for Hirohito, who has been making do with a 15-year-old Packard. The Emperor could come right down and pick up his "glorious grey" Cadillac, ordered three years ago. After a trial spin, the delighted owner ordered his imperial crest (a 16-petaled chrysanthemum...
...policeman and rapped peremptorily on the rear window. "All I want to do is shake hands with him," she told the cop defiantly. (The Veep rolled down a window and obliged.) Other women stormed into the church and briskly stripped the chancel of every last chrysanthemum, camellia and fern...