Word: maidenhair
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...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...
Amid pink chrysanthemums and maidenhair fern, and to the melodious murmuring of the Marine Band Orchestra, the Cabinet et ux. dined at the White House. It was the traditional fiesta which Presidents always give their hardworking Secretaries after the latter have spent a busy season preparing reports, and before the hurly-burly of a Congressional session begins...
...Pink carnations, maidenhair ferns, golden candlesticks, 50 empty chairs were seen in the state dining salon of the White House. Soon, and promptly, the chairs were occupied, for the President and Mrs. Coolidge had opened the official Washington social season with the annual Cabinet dinner. Among those present were Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, the Cabinet members and their wives, Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, and a few favored guests from Washington, New York, Boston, such as Bruce Barton, advertising man, writer of books on the Bible and Jesus; Dr. Vernon L. Kellogg, famed zoologist; Mortimer L. Schiff, potent Manhattan...
...House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Secretary of State of the U. S.; the President of the U. S.; and the respective ladies-all sat down to a grand international feast from the Dolly Madison service in the state dining room of the White House. Besides there were poinsettias, stevia, maidenhair ferns and French gilt candles. The builders of the tower of Babel would have been shocked if the assemblage had begun to talk in its native languages. Afterwards there was music by Mr. Schelling, Mlle. Giannini...