Word: nosegays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Claudette Colbert as the chorus girl, Don Ameche as the taxi-driver who meets her at the station, Francis Lederer as the gigolo who falls in love with her and John Barrymore as the millionaire who finances her, it looks as bright and fetching as an artful nosegay. Good sequence: Barrymore and Colbert eyeing each other at a musicale which she has crashed by palming off a pawn ticket as a card of admission...
...disdained Buick. At the proper spot each pauses, ejects a human cartridge or so, and moves off while the full feed belt behind fidgets for its turn. There is no hidden sheen here. No sheen in the clothing, at any rate. They are impeccable--the soft white spat, glove, nosegay--the starchy white shirt, collar, handkerchief--the black topper and morning dress coat--the sparkling shoes, still black on the soles--the pin-stripe trousers breaking at the proper inch above the instep--the soft, luxuriant Ascot--and concealed somewhere in all this the wallet, the very full wallet...
...interests are represented by papers like the "New York Times" and the "New York Herald Tribune"; the leftists by "The Awakener"; and Italians by "Dielli". But it is impossible to fulfill this purpose, to mirror truthfully the kaleidoscopic forces at work, without taking cognizance of Mr. Hearst and his nosegay press...
...elected Lord Mayor of the City of London. "The City's" gloomy Guildhall was strewn with sweet herbs for the occasion. The Aldermen staggered under the tricornered hats and massive gold & black robes of their nominal office as Liverymen of the ancient London trade guilds. Each carried a nosegay. Trumpets blew. The Liverymen shouted their oft-rehearsed parts. Aldermen who had already been Lord Mayor were told to leave the Common Hall. Then the remaining members of the Grocers. Fishmongers, Butchers, Bakers, Waxchandlers, Armourers & Brasiers, Stationers, Bowyers, Coachmakers, and Glovers Guilds elected Sir Stephen of the Fanmakers' Company...
...strange political nosegay were the six gentlemen...