Word: narcissi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Agnes Moorehead describes him as "a big bear with a big, pink, plush heart." His passion for flowers is so great that he will walk miles to see the spring's first crocus. In the gardens of Chapel Hill, N.C., he was so moved by the budding of narcissi and daffodils that he cried. Laughton's personal untidiness upsets some of his friends, but one of them, Actor Arthur Macrae, thinks it more deliberate than careless: "After all, Charles is a funny-looking sort of fellow, and he knows it. There's no sense trying to have...
...fortunate. Weeks went by ... and never a day passed sunless ... The thin little wild crocuses came up mauve and striped, the wild narcissi hung their winter stars. (page...
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