Word: larkspur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great, from King Gustaf; a modern diamond brooch from Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, father of the bride; a sapphire pendant from George V; and five kroner in cash ($1.25) from an unknown Swedish girl. Because blue is Sweden's royal color and Princess Ingrid is passionately addicted to larkspur, a plane piled high with larkspur flew over from London to decorate the wedding church, Stockholm's 13th Century Storkyrka. Leading a concert of Danish and Swedish songs before all the wedding guests, Conductor Sven Lizell of the Stockholm Choral Society dropped dead of heart failure...
...21st annual international flower show in Manhattan J. Pierpont Morgan won a gold medal for his tropical Kalanchoe globulifera coccinea; Mr & Mrs. Marshall Field, first prizes for their mignonettes, larkspur, stock: Mrs. Cornelius Francis Kelley, a first with twelve white Antirrhinum spikes...
Secretary of Commerce Lament will rusticate on his son's ranch at Larkspur...