Word: lilacs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poughkeepsie turned out en masse to see them motor through: one family chopped 20 ft. out of their lilac hedge to clear the view. At Hyde Park, where the royal standard was flown from the portico, the grueling formality and handshaking ended (the royal hands were swollen). After church on Sunday, where Rector Frank Wilson dryly observed that attendance would improve if all parishioners would bring their guests as Mr. Roosevelt did, the King shed his necktie, ate hot dogs, drank beer (Ruppert's) at a "dream cottage" picnic, photographed the Indian storyteller and singer who performed. Squire Roosevelt...
...With the lilacs in full bloom in the Arnold Arboretum, next Sunday has been formally announced as 'Lilac Sunday,' one week earlier than last spring...
...Fifth Avenue apartment of the Bedaux is at present let to Actress Gertrude Lawrence. It still smells of lilac, a perfume so much liked by Mrs. Bedaux that she has quarts of it always handy, ready to be sprayed about the rooms. On the 53rd floor of the Chrysler Building, Mr. Bedaux's office is done in weathered oak with a medieval monastery effect. According to Manhattan's World-Telegram this week, Mrs. Bedaux has said, "If Charles had horns he would be the Devil," and she used to appear sometimes at parties he gave in Greenwich Village...
...attempt to find plants suitable for New England, to replace the many varieties killed here by the sovere cold of the past two winters, officials of the Arnold Arboretum are trying out for the first time in New England certain hardy types of lilac, holly, and wild apple imported from the Balkan states of Europe...
...Among the more promising collections obtained by Dr. Anderson are a Boanian holly, the hybrid Fraxinus from the Danube delta, alpine forms of the common lilac...