Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coats: "The trained eye is caught at once by the rare lapels of the royal coats. Often these sections are hard and flat; but in the King's coats they turn over gently like a leaf or the petals of a flower...
...Author. Archaeologist and historian by training, Author Undset is a novelist by instinct and by closely scheduled labor. Dressed in the national costume of a mediaeval Viking matron, she devotes the day to her five children, to her 16th century house, to her famous flower garden. and the quiet evening to her writing...
...lavatory. Presented to the Governor in connection with his inaugural exercises, the blooming washbasin is two feet high and 18 inches wide, and exactly duplicates the "Columbia" lavatory, as manufactured by the Governor in his plumbing fixture factory. It is made of from 400 to 500 white carnations, favorite flower of the Governor...
...have discredited the subjects of psychological analysis in the eyes of the scientific world by their vague and extravagant statements. As if in blissful ignorance of the nature of scientific testimony phantasms have been promulgated with generous abundancy. Undoubtedly amidst the weeds there are to be found some flowers, but there is no telling one from the other and so criticism mows them down weed and flower alike. Certainly this state of affairs is more a function of the analyst than of the subject matter; for we have here a legitimate realm for disciplined inquiry...
...flower upon the coat lapel is the authentic badge of Bolshevism, but even this fact does not dissuade the Grand Duke Alexander Michailovitch Romanov-surviving cousin and brother-in-law of Tsar Nicholas the Last-from wearing whenever he chooses a red boutonniere. Thus last week His Imperial Highness, who is now lecture-touring U. S. cities, received smart Manhattanites in his suite at the Hotel Ritz with a blood-red rosebud peeping from his buttonhole. The thing was urbanely and genuinely done. "I am of no party," smiled the Grand Duke, and presently charmed his guests by chatting...