Word: gardenia
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...whole world, practically, seems to be giving cocktail parties. . . . Mrs. Henry Field had on a fantastic and most becoming hat ... like a parasol with a gardenia under the brim. . . . Mother (Mrs. A. H. Granger) is sailing the end of May to spend the summer in and around Vienna. . . . I've been a little tired this week and the person who is to blame is Miss Margalo Gilmore, owing to the fact that she has so many friends here. We played the piano and sang and in no time it was much too late. . . . Like all my parties, everyone just...
King George, wearing a black silk hat, a cutaway and a gardenia in his buttonhole, put down his field glasses and a man at the side of the track put up the names of the horses who had finished first, second and third in the British Derby at Epsom Downs-Cameronian, Orpen, Sandwich. Immediately there began the amazing procedure of publicizing the real winners of the Derby, which has for years been recognized as merely a spectacular way of deciding the greatest racehorse lotteries in the world. An extraordinary crew, most of them convinced that their success was in some...
...view was the Cathedral treasure: a sacred stole blazing with Byzantine gems which once studded the mantle of the Empress Constantia. But as he knelt at the altar beside Princess Isabelle last week the Count of Paris was garbed in a mere cutaway, his richest ornament a gardenia...
...struggles are over. Smooth, cosmopolitan, he is thus described by a warm friend: "His ties and socks are a gracefully subdued symphony. His barber is the best in town. . . . His Rolls-Royce is at least six inches longer than any other Rolls-Royce. With evening dress he wears a gardenia, one white pearl and one black." His well-known books: The Green Hat, These Charming People, Young Men in Love, Lily Christine...
...usual habiliments-morning coat, striped trousers, buttonhole gardenia- Grover Aloysius Whalen, New York City's official greeter and onetime police commissioner, stepped out on a cinema set in Los Angeles. .So much did he resemble an extra actor made up for the play in progress that an assistant director gave him a push, bellowing: "Come on, get a move on!" When Mr. Whalen protested politely, the assistant director roared: "Don't gee fresh with me!" Grover Aloysius Whalen extricated himself from this embarrassing situation by producing his calling card...