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...More solitary listeners pull shades, take the phone off the hook and even lock their doors. Wrote one fan, too old to attend the Met any more: "On Saturdays, I get my black velvet dress out of its box. And I dress my hair and put a fresh flower in a vase beside me. After all, I am to spend the afternoon with dukes and duchesses." In the '305, when the Met was being refurbished, a Texan had one of the plush seats sent to him so that he could "listen in style." One devotee left...
...right thing, but performance with elegance casts a spell. Let me do some thinking in the direction of impeccable, symmechromatic, thunder-blender . . . (The exotics, if I can shape them a little.) Dearborn might come into one ... I thank you for realizing that under contract esprit could not flower. You owe me nothing, specific or moral...
...acre home-base nursery at Newark. N.Y., 1,000-acre and 1, 900-acre rose fields in California and Arizona, plus smaller nurseries in New Jersey and Indiana. Sales this year are headed toward $9,700,000. mostly of roses (by far the most popular U.S. flower) but also including such other J. & P. specialties as delphiniums and mums. In the rose business, in which it annually grosses three times the combined sales of its three nearest rivals, J. & P. also leads its field in adapting to changing times. In 1940 it promoted floribunda roses-many full-sized blooms carried...
Gangly male dancers in khaki and open shirts and lithe young girls in flower prints and leotards lounged in motley array on a dirty yellow staircase. Two carpenters surveyed a set of flimsy stairs for the opening production number, The Prince Is Giving a Ball. "It'll never hold the way it is," said one. "Better put a brace under it." Through ganglia of cables down from a remote eyrie came the cry of an electrician: "The damn lights haven't any numbers on them." A large reflector crashed to the floor. "It's the only...
...escort young lovers through the delicate orthodoxy of England's Edwardian era, G.R.M. Devereux synthesized in Lover's Dictionary a comprehensive language of flowers. Each blossom wafted a specific message (dandelions: "go"), and the manner of handing it to the lady became part of the unspoken word. A flower inclined to his right said, "I love you," to his left, "Thou art radiant with beauty...