Word: lapeller
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Once there was a man who wore a rose on his lapel, but kept his heart off his sleeve. He was a wise man and the disciple of a wise man who was dead. Both were from a nation half-way around the world and were between two worlds. The first man raised the conqueror's thumb from his nation and stopped war there. The second wise man said he desired to stop war throughout the world...
...wore a rose in his lapel increased his exaltedness as a Moral Authority so that he shone exceeding bright in the eyes of the world, he increased the prestige (also important in those days long past) of the world council. He refused, however, to let the plebiscite be held, but he was very devious in his obstructionism and few were aware...
...Sporting a red carnation in his lapel, Lausche stood while Senate Chaplain Frederick Brown Harris prayed that his charges be saved "from all compromise, which crucifies principle, and from all shoddy workmanship, which betrays the possible best, and from cowardly expediency, which is treason to the highest integrity." With the 33 other members beginning terms, he marched to the Senate well to be sworn in by the Vice President. Then came Lausche's moment. When Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson proposed that Arizona's venerable Carl Hayden be elected Senate President Pro Tempore, Republican Bill Knowland rose, offered...
...sang well in Act I, and Milanov appeared to be suffering from dizziness, staggering and finally getting herself planted before starting to sing. Vocally, she was plagued by an excruciatingly bad sense of pitch, although she had sung her role commendably in the dress rehearsal. Her loyal supporters wore lapel buttons reading "Viva Zinka!", but it did not help...
...Just walk through that door to the rear of the stage and wait for directions," said the round man at the side entrance of the Opera House as he checked our identification. Mr. Nordus, with a spray of flags across the lapel of his tails that made him look like a distinguished veteran of the Pacific campaign rather than the conductor of the Ballet Orchestra, stepped aside as we filed in. He was in the process of greeting Boston friends or relatives in a flurry of Danish, ending up with "I'll see you later...