Word: flower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, a weekend that blossomed with flags and bunting reached full flower as George VI and Queen Elizabeth rode in state from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's and back. The occasion: their silver wedding anniversary. The King and Queen (and Princess Margaret) rode in a gold and crimson coach behind the household cavalry and full-dress Guards, helmeted and plumed, on jet horses. After them came a coach with Elizabeth and Philip. Salutes were fired; cheering crowds jam-packed the sidewalks...
Since the first visitor crossed its threshold, more than 2,500,000 have wandered along the Huntington's magnificent cactus beds, orange groves and flower gardens, stopped to peer at the library's $50,000 Gutenberg Bible, and climbed the art gallery's marble stairs to take whispered popularity polls among the portraits. To San Marino each year come scholars to dig through treasures that range from the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript (best text of the Canterbury Tales) to the manuscript of Stevenson's Kidnapped...
...means of control, Nash used to impose geometrical patterns on his landscapes and still lifes, reshaping hills, trees and flower pots to suit his highly refined taste. The results looked arbitrarily prettified, at first, but in spite of that (or perhaps because of it) they sold...
Sticks & Stones ... In Ottawa, Ill., a judge enjoined Henry Factly Jr. from trying to evict his aged mother by 1 ) putting an electric fence across the drive to shock her, 2) hiding iron pipes in the grass to trip-her, 3 ) digging up her flower garden, 4) giving a bull a rock-filled milk can to butt so that "terrific noises would result...
...Roses. In Naples, the same week, Father Lombardi landed at the Capodichino airport-just as a huge truck sped into the city, bearing, under a gilded, pillared canopy, the picture of the Madonna di Pompeii. A salvo of 21 guns sounded in greeting, showers of flower petals filled the air and hundreds of thousands of candles were...