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Word: florists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groom escorted his bride to the familiar Tonight guest couch. Johnny, looking mighty puffed up in his tuxedo, greeted them from behind his accustomed desk. There followed a commercial and a champagne toast (the couple drank milk and honey). Tiny serenaded his bride and read plugs for the florist who had supplied 8,000 tulips, his hairdresser, and several other generous purveyors. After sign-off, the couple held an unruly press conference in which Tiny estimated that their kiss during the ceremony had been "about our fifth," but then proceeded to buss Miss Vicki 100 more times at the behest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Puff-Up Time | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

YPSL has now obtained written agreements to not sell California grapes from all Harvard Square stores except the Brattle Street Florist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grapes Off Menu At Cliffe, Harvard Until Strike Ends | 10/2/1968 | See Source »

Only two stores still stock the grapes in the Square--Sage Market and the Brattle Florist...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Local Merchants Yield to Demands Of YPSL Pickets | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...owner of the Brattle Florist said, "I don't mind the pickets. But they're not going to come in here and tell me how to run my business. I am not afraid...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Local Merchants Yield to Demands Of YPSL Pickets | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...whereabouts of the cod remained unknown for over a week while evidence piled up against Harvard culprits and eventually pointed to the Lampoon. Guards told newsmen elaborate stories of a "curly haired boy" standing near the cod, holding a large, long florist's box. 'But," one guard said, "from him came the breath of something other than lilies. It was a sort of alcoholic fragrance." The alcoholic fragrance turned to a drunken stench as the city of Boston got increasingly enraged. The Post reported angrily that "the thief was intoxicated...badly in need of a shave...wore brown clothing...

Author: By Betsy Nadas, | Title: Salute to Times Past: The Lampoon lbis | 6/3/1968 | See Source »

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