Word: nosegay
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...missing in England today-beautiful manners." Sir Osbert even had a gaudy tribute for New York, "the most beautiful and inspiring of modern creations, the sole heir to Alexandria, Constantinople and Venice." In Pittsburgh, whose smoke she spoofs in her show, Inside U.S.A., Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) accepted a nosegay of white roses from Mayor David L. Lawrence, accompanied him to a mountain top for a clear view of the city. ("Fortunately," reported the Pittsburgh Press, "it was a nice day.") With the best of British manners, Bea confided that she had never really thought Pittsburgh was smoky, anyway...
Ashida received 216 votes (five more than the required majority), while rose-wearing Yoshida got 180. The Diet's upper chamber voted the other way, 104-102; but under Japan's new constitution this was merely another nosegay for the loser: the vote in the lower house was the only one that counted...
Like a mourner laying a nosegay on a grave, Miss Josephine Roche last week paid the first liquidating dividend of her bankrupt Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., the company the United Mine Workers loved. The dividend of 25? on each of the company's 758,720 shares of common stock came from sales of coal lands and royalties from mines leased to other companies...
...Film Czar Eric Johnston, who always provides a fragrant oratorical nosegay, was in top form. Movies, he declared, are immortal art-the first new art, in fact, since Greek drama...
...passed two German officers headed along to our prison stockade, passed a column of young dandies on bicycles, a young Italian bridal couple, the bride trim and shapely in a grey suit adorned by a bright nosegay...