Word: geranium
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...comforts of modern civilization. Among them: a cavernous closet just for Miss Crawford's 304 pairs of shoes, another for her cosmetics and pills, a special shampoo and hairdressing basin with spray faucets, a massage table and whirlpool tub for Steele, a diamond-shaped dining-room table, a geranium-pink bedroom with wood-burning fireplace...
...color of earth, and had a texture not unlike a truffle, apart from one raw reddish gash in it. It gave off an odor as of clay newly dug; also a pungent whiff of onion and of oil of geranium...They stood frozen before this object that drew and yet repelled them, as if a uniform reptillian mass should suddenly uncoil before their eyes and rear a dozen snaky heads. It was death's absolute presence that confronted them...
...Exchequer was due to show up carrying the battered dispatch case used by Gladstone and by every Chancellor since. A few Tory traditionalists wore black silk toppers. Sir Winston Churchill, who attended his first Budget Day in 1901, beamed from his bench below the gangway, sporting a huge red geranium in his lapel...
Irresistible. In London, arrested for pinching a geranium from a windowbox while delivering mail, Postman Frederick Johnson was fined 10 shillings ($1.40) after telling the judge, "I am very fond of flowers and in a moment of temptation I took...
...Metasequoia is easy to grow and propagation from cuttings is child's play. Merrill claims that "anyone who can root geranium cuttings can raise Metasequoias." One professor ran some branches through an ordinary meet-grinder and found a very high percentage of them took root. "It is the easiest cornifer to propagate by soft or hardwood cuttings," according to Merrill...