Word: nosegay
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...York of the '70s and '80s, when the city had open farmland, picnickers rode barges to Coney Island, and 300 Episcopal delegates on a three-week convention put away 80,000 oysters. Part biography, part social comedy, Author Kahn's book is a diverting and nostalgic nosegay thrown to the past Manhattan's lower East Side was so strongly Irish when Edward Green Harrigan was born there, in 1844, that the neighborhood was known as Cork...
...trial lasted six months and the newspapers, Beecher complained, gave the case more space than the Civil War battles. Seated amid his six lawyers, Defendant Beecher, sniffing occasionally at a nosegay of violets, denied everything...
...Charles Brandon, Richard Todd is equally adept at gathering a nosegay for the princess, writing her a sonnet, and fighting off the evil duke and his henchmen. Portly James Robertson Justice plays a younger and more forceful Henry VIII than the one Charles Laughton has made familiar to moviegoers. As Mary Tudor, elfin-faced Glynis Johns, with her wryly insinuating voice, gives a winning characterization of a conniving little royal baggage...
Still admiring the orchids it had collected for its Kefauver and MacArthur coverage, television accepted another nosegay last week. The University of Cincinnati polled 694 local high-school teachers on the educational possibilities of TV, found 1) 92% in favor of TV programs for school use; 2) 74% willing to change class schedules to take advantage of television; 3) 58% ready to accept "restricted" advertising commercials to pay the bill for school TV; 4) 75% eager to let their students spend 30 minutes or more of the school day viewing special TV shows...
...publishers call The Eye of God (the name of the local mountain) a novel. It isn't. Anecdotes don't make a novel any more than edelweiss make an alp; but when Bemelmans does the picking, they make a bright nosegay...