Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center of the square was a flower-covered casket, in it the body of "John X," a G.I. fallen in defense of Belgium (he was not an unknown soldier; for this occasion one body was designated as John X). Joseph Cardinal van Roey, primate of Belgium, said a blessing for John X, then the bells of the ancient Notre Dame Cathedral tolled. Hundreds of Belgians fell in behind the procession as a caisson bore the casket to a pier on the Scheldt. There the casket of John X joined 5,599 others in the hold of the U.S. Army transport...
Died. Fiorello H. LaGuardia, 64, New York City's fiery "Little Flower"; of cancer; in The Bronx...
Noisy Man. Many a New Yorker found the news hard to believe, like the silence which follows the clatter of a rivet gun. In 32 years in public life, the Little Flower had been damned as a buffoon and a tyrant, praised as a great liberal and an exacting administrator. He had performed miracles of political acrobatics. But New Yorkers had grown to think of him not so much as a political force but as a manifestation of sound and movement-shrill, vehement, energetic and cacophonous, as oddly comforting as the roar of the subway and the bleat of taxi...
...gathered nicknames-the Little Flower, Butch, The Hat, the Little King. He posed for photographs in gas masks, baseball caps, catcher's masks, chef's caps and fireman's hats. During campaign speeches, he used his horn-rimmed spectacles as sword, scepter and backscratcher; he spat on imaginary apples, kicked imaginary footballs and screeched vulgarly at his enemies. He started a weekly radio program, on which he told housewives how to cook spaghetti, and, during the 1945 newspaper strike, read comics to their offspring...
Cairo housewives hurried to Hanafi Farag's dry-goods store in Cairo's crowded bazaar, the Mûski. El Khoury silk, marked down from $2.90, turned out to be mostly large, splashy flower designs in reds, greens and blues, and was of Egyptian manufacture. It went fast, for dresses. Gromyko satin, marked down from $2.41, came in solid pastels. Somewhat unfortunately (for political verisimilitude), Gromyko satin had been made in Franco Spain. But it was selling well, too, chiefly for nighties, housecoats, slips and panties...