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...button-down, shirtwaist styles, and the blatant tents for which it had become known, its lines are tamer. However, the effect is definitely on the wild side. A few styles retain excess fullness, but most are slimmed down and even semi-fitted. The trend from small geometric and corny floral-like prints to bold architectonic designs is an improvement. Wrought iron and fossil prints as well as the large circle designs really grab you. Specific spring shapes are back fullness, semi-A (fitted to waist), real A, empire, and square bottom. You'll never see anything stranger than...
...millions of mulchers, seeders, weeders, pruners and preeners of U.S. Suburbia and Exurbia, spring arrives in a blaze of nursery catalogues and dreams of floral glory. This month gardening buffs have been streaming through the nation's flower shows, green thumbs twitching. All winter, in fact, a surprising number of them had potting soil under their fingernails. For greenhouses are getting to be almost common-or-garden...
...Market racketeers of all the shootings and prophesied that "the next victims will be at Muratore's funeral." At St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Muratore's body, clad in a Capuchin's robes, lay in a $1,575 casket with silver fittings, surrounded by floral offerings. Throngs of dapper Italians wearing black ties, dark tight-fitting suits with tapered trousers, and black pointed shoes escorted their wives in deep mourning. In a building opposite, Melbourne police focused binoculars and telephoto cameras on the 200 cars that made up the funeral procession...
Jackie Kennedy does want to be first, has worked hard to stay there. Both she and Jack have a rare zest for parties, and she has an even rarer knack for making them click. She is a perfectionist who frets over floral settings and menus for even the smallest dinners, but the big ones bring out the best in her. Her extravaganzas are the talk of the Western world-a sunset cruise down the Potomac for 138, a floodlit lawn party at Mount Vernon, a roomtul of Nobel laureates waltzing over the parquet White House floors...
...years, at last in 1903, unlike Madame Butterfly, married the man and toured the world with him for twelve nomadic years until he died, leaving her a comfortable income, which she used to return home in 1938 and begin teaching the gentle art of the tea ceremony and ikebana (floral arrangement); of pneumonia; in Kyoto...