Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acheson and two State Department aides later, visited Mossadegh's flower-decked bedside to urge him to reopen oil talks with Great Britain.. President Truman added his urgings at a Blair House luncheon for Mossadegh...
...second exhibition, "Masterpieces of Chinese Bird and Flower Painting," will open in the Oriental section of Fogg October 30. There will be close to 40 paintings in the display, which will cover the period from the Sung to the Ching dynasties...
Most members of the Woman's Club of Denver look as though they would be more interested in flower arrangement than in politics. Actually, they find the heady fumes of civic controversy invigorating, and for half a century have maintained a state of simmering indignation about everything from the lack of public bathhouses to the dangers of bars in residential areas. But for all that, Denver was startled last week at the club's newest proposal: Mrs. Gano Sentner, the club's parliamentarian, described it as complete castration for male sex offenders...
...Restaurant in Washington. "Lulley had a bar," Sherman recalled sentimentally, "and we sat around [it] a bit and then . . . O'Dwyer and Marcantonio went out into the garden . . . and took their shirts off and even got to singing together . . ." The duet did not become political. "While the Little Flower [Fiorello LaGuardia] lives, I will be for him and with him. If he don't [run], then you and I can get together," Marcantonio told O'Dwyer...
High atop San Francisco's Nob Hill, the mourners and the curious crowded into massive, neo-Gothic Grace Cathedral. The great copper casket was carried into the arched, flower-filled chancel and set between two crosses of white lilies. From the Book of Common Prayer, the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Episcopal Bishop of California, intoned the funeral service, without sermon or eulogy. At that moment, in the grimy office of the Examiner, a few blocks away, and in Hearst-papers across the land, typewriters and linotypes stilled their clatter, and for a few minutes the plants...