Word: maidenhair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staid residents of Washington should see a dinosaur ambling through Rock Creek Park, they would be surprised. Logically they should be just as surprised at the ginkgo trees, imported from China, which actually grow in large numbers in Washington. The ginkgo or "maidenhair tree" (so called because its leaves resemble maidenhair fern) is a member of the gymnosperms, most primitive of seed plants, and is a relic of the Age of Reptiles, 150,000,000 years...
During this interval, at a table decorated with pink roses, stevia and maidenhair fern, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt entertained at luncheon Mmes Charles Evans Hughes, William Howard Taft, Louis Brandeis, George Sutherland, Pierce Butler, Harlan F. Stone and Owen J. Roberts...
...Pink roses, crape myrtle and maidenhair fern decorated the State dining room table when President Hoover had Dr. Harmodio Arias, President-elect of Panama, in to luncheon. ¶ Aug. 11, one day after his 58th birthday, was set for President Hoover's speech accepting renomination. ¶ President Hoover transferred the Department of Commerce's Radio Division (established in 1911) to the Federal Radio Commission. Affected were 190 employes, an annual expenditure...
...official calls had been made by Senhor Prestes at the White House and by Mr. Hoover at the Meyer mansion, the President-elect motored to Mount Vernon and Arlington, then dressed for dinner in his pink-draped bedroom, hurried back to the White House where pink roses, hollyhocks and maidenhair ferns decked a banquet board set for 56 men. Vice President Curtis, with Statesman Stimson on his right, faced President Hoover, with President-elect Prestes on his right...