Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solemnly proposed a toast to "the President of India"). He got his ear bent by loquacious Governor Averell Harriman, who introduced the Prime Minister to pin-neat Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio ("Carmine-I was just telling the Prime Minister here about you . . ."). His balding head glistening, the flower in his buttonhole lazily depetaling, Nehru wadded his white handkerchief in his hand, rose to deliver softly a slumbrous sermon (viz., leadership must compromise, else it becomes defeated) that was as uninformative as it was long (and brought evident drowsiness to a few of his neighbors, including chief foreign-policy...
...known as the Ministers of Tea and Butter, and the Panchen Lama, the young god-king proceeded across India, usually mounted on a pony-although once he rode an elephant together with Prime Minister Nehru. He was surrounded by a whirl of waving yellow prayer flags, burning incense and flower petals. Thousands of Buddhist pilgrims prostrated themselves before him. and when they could not reach his gown, they touched the hoofs of his pony. Dignified and smiling, his crew cut and glasses making him look (as one American put it) like an exchange student at the University of Southern California...
...GREAT FLOWER BOOKS, 1700-1900, by Sacheverell Sitwell and Wilfrid Blunt (94 pp.; Collins: $50), is one of the most beautiful as well as one of the most expensive books of the year. Its illustrations are the work of the great botanical artists of two centuries, and the flowers stand lushly on pages 1½ ft. high and more than a foot wide. The book derives further elegance from the graceful and handsomely printed essays of Flower Enthusiasts Sitwell and Blunt...
...personal crash came. Then I guess I woke up. So, when I was almost thirty, I began to make my living from writing." Hughes had been a long time getting through college. He graduated in 1929, and had worked in a hat store, on a truck farm, in a flower shop, and as a doorman, second cook, waiter, beach-comber, bum, and seaman, on the way. In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel, Not Without Laughter, which earned him a $400 award, which was what he had in 1929 when he lost his patron and decided...
...treasured volumes only two pages at a time, museumgoers are likely to be both tantalized and delighted by what they see. The Duke of Berry's Belles Heures, illustrated by his personal painters, the three Limbourg brothers, breathes the freshness of morning. Embossed with gold, it sparkles with flower-bouquet hues, including the exquisite borage-blossom blue, a pigment so precious that the duke listed two pots of it among his treasures. The queen's handbook was meant to delight as well as instruct. The Nativity (see cut) introduces the text for sunrise prayers, but just in case...