Word: garden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Ambassador has received Their Britannic Majesties' commands to invite (blank for name) to a garden party at the Embassy on Thursday, the 8th of June, 1939. The British Ambassador's wife rose at 6 a. m. all last week to do the tough job of picking 1,300 names (900 in Washington, 400 throughout the land) to receive invitations thus worded under the seal & cipher of George Rex and Elizabeth. Her great name-choosing task ended, Lady Lindsay consented at last to receive the press and explain how her guests must behave...
...summon distinguished guests whom Their Majesties wish to have presented. In case of rain, two large khaki tents will be provided. Tea will be served under smaller marquees. The hard drink bar will be around a corner, out of sight. Guests must remain until Their Majesties withdraw. Then "the garden gates will be opened and the guests will leave," unhandshaken (because of their number) by moose-tall Sir Ronald & Lady Lindsay, whose last official performance in Washington this will...
Winthrop House is transforming its terrace and courtyard into a Viennese garden tonight for its annual spring buffet supper and formal dance. Leon Mayers will provide the music for the outdoor festivities which will last from 10 to 2 o'clock...
Visiting a garden dedicated to the memory of George V, Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, genteelly prodded some ivy with her umbrella, vowed: "If I had a pair of secateurs [pruning shears], I would cut it off now. ... If I come next year and it's still there, I will clip it off." "Her Majesty," translated a lady-in-waiting, "doesn't like...
...himself frustrated. Muttering grimly about "a pesky younger brother," he sat down on a bench. But Billy, instead of getting better, felt worse and worse; finally Vag thought discretion the better part of valor, and he took Billy down the corridor towards the exit. As he left the fragrant Garden he kept wishing that he had eaten all of Billy's hot dog while...