Word: gardenia
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Victory, Pen, Gardenia. Chief U. S. Delegate Henry Lewis Stimson, who fought and won a last-minute victory to keep the League of Nations from being mentioned in the Treaty (all the other delegations wished to mention it), said to correspondents after he had deposited his certified copy* in the S. S. Leviathan's safe: "I am not interested in warships any more. My chief trouble now is that I have left one of my suitcases in London...
...signed the more nebulous portions of the Treaty they did not sign its more vital, binding clauses. More than making up for French silence, President Herbert Hoover sent the battleship Texas and four destroyers to blaze a 19-gun salute as the Leviathan neared Manhattan where Police Commissioner Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen greeted the delegates, sped them to Washington...
Into the news of Moscow strutted last week a sleek U. S. citizen with a gardenia...
Samuel Instill. On the opening night he arrived, pearls in vest, gardenia in buttonhole, an hour before curtain time to receive congratulations on his new opera house...
...biggest pair of shoes that ever walked out of Mississippi" belonged, according to Senator Pat Harrison of that State, to John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator, who now dozes in gardenia-scented retirement on his plantation near Yazoo City, Miss. To fill the Williams shoes, Mississippi sent to Washington Hubert Durett Stephens, a man who was considered brilliant as a youth because he started practicing law at the tender age of 20, but who has yet to distinguish himself either as a shoe-filler or as a Senator...