Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lighted Sparkler. The Pennsylvania Railroad's grey-haired President Martin W. Clement, an arch-Republican, asked Democratic bigwigs to a garden party at the fashionable Merion Cricket Club. But the party seemed oddly like a waxworks exhibition. There, bowing and smiling and real as life, were scores of famous men who had already been politically embalmed...
...families posed for photographers on the steps, walking across the lawn, trooping down the drive. Assisted by Mrs. Warren, Frances Dewey dutifully snipped a sprig of roses from her garden ("I'm the good weeder type," she explained). The governors took off their coats, leaned on a fence, smiled for the cameras in front of the flagpole, by the barn...
...judge by its content, the typical British reader of the weekly Spectator is a staid, orderly man who carries an umbrella on threatening days, and whose wife has the vicar to tea in the garden. He is likely to say "verb. sap." when he means "a word to the wise," and if he says, "I rather think I shall go sailing tomorrow, D.V.," everyone knows that he means "Deo volente" (God willing...
...Connecticut hills. A few suntanned hikers, from the old Appalachian Trail near by, had left their knapsacks at the door. The old regulars missed a familiar sight: a limousine pulling up in front just before concert time, and a tall (6 ft. 1 in.) woman with a flower-garden hat and a look of the '90s about her clothes, stepping out on the arm of a friend. At 84, almost deaf and barely able to walk, Patroness Coolidge was too tired to go that far for a concert (although she did get to one nearer home, in Pittsfield, Mass...
...affair was Paris' biggest and smartest since the liberation. In the refined splendor of the Hotel Ritz garden last week, some 1,500 diplomats and millionaires and their ladies gathered to sip champagne and nibble pastries in honor of the hotel's 50th birthday. None contributed more glitteringly to the glitter than a white-haired little woman who greeted them at the entrance in fluent French, English or Spanish. She was 81-year-old Marie Louise ("Mimi") Ritz, widow of the man who founded the hotel-and thereby made his name a synonym for ultra-fashionable...