Word: gladioli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another vacationing statesman, Winston Churchill was looking for peace & quiet. He thought he had found it last week in Gardone, on Lake Garda in north Italy. Gardone's Marxist mayor greeted him with a bunch of gladioli; Churchill replied with the opinion that Trieste should be returned to Italy...
When popular Conductor Arthur Fiedler marched to the gladioli-banked podium three days after Koussevitzky's farewell, a hallful of Pops fans were there to give him a roar of welcome...
Henry Agard Wallace, whose much-publicized project for planting corn on the tiny lawn of his Park Avenue headquarters struck a lot of people as right off the cob, changed his mind. He settled for gladioli, and set foot to spade for photographers...
...family was there, waiting for them, when Harry Truman, hat in hand and carefully keeping pace with Mrs. Roosevelt, came through the garden entrance and took an enormous wreath of white gladioli from the leathery hands of an Army sergeant. Both the President and Mrs. Roosevelt raised their heads high as they turned and advanced to the white marble block where a small flag flapped over a cup of bright red tulips. The President bent slowly, and, with his left hand, placed the wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave...
After the reception, the guests adjourned to a $20,000 ballroom-a tent with wood floor-built on the lawn for the occasion. Pink-and-silver silk, matching Betty's gown, hid the ceiling; great chandeliers held masses of pink gladioli. Two 20-piece or chestras (Meyer Davis and Ruby Newman) played chaste, danceable music through the night...