Word: evergreen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brilliant Russian artist and stage designer. She brought him to her Baltimore home, there set him to work designing a private theatre, decorating it in the modern Russian style. Bakst decorations spread to include other features of her home, some of her costumes. To her theatre at "Evergreen" she invited special guests, sang to them in a voice not professionally successful. Later, remaining childless, she turned to art as an outlet for self-expression...
...always these public services have been rendered with a private distinction which has marked "Evergreen" hospitality. There, a dinner menu elaborately inscribed on a gold-bordered card is set in a little gold holder before each guest, that he may gauge his appetite. And, dinner done, guests may wander through a library where tier on tier of precious old books are the envy of every bibliophile...
...urbanite is not bereft of all native cunning. The CRIMSON makes no promises and, toward off possible future recriminations, it has no regrets. But in the chill October twilight, then, and then only, may the woodsman, fortified with a compass and flint for igniting fires, flaunt his rural and evergreen prowess...
...wide rumbled forth, drawn by oxen, and emitting from its wooden wheel-hubs four differently pitched notes: "the sacred mournful sounds." When the great funeral pavilion was reached, the body was placed upon an altar and the Emperor bowed low before it. Picking up a branch of evergreen he placed it on the altar, beside the body, thus symbolizing that the dead Emperor had gone to everlasting life. Three times His Majesty sprinkled incense upon live coals. Three times he bowed to his dead father. Then, at last, he turned to his people and read a short message, proclaiming...
...occasion she and her stepdaughter, Alice Longworth (with whom she had been staying at Washington), called on Mrs. Coolidge (vide supra); on the other, she was called upon at Sagamore Hill by half a hundred admirers of the late President who had journeyed to lay an evergreen wreath on the grave of him who had been dead just seven years...