Word: orchid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kitchen, and consists of a glass of milk and cold chicken from the icebox. . . . The fauna of America consists mainly of the horse and the cairn terrier; now and then the discerning eye may detect, in the distance, a stampede of cows. The flora is largely confined to the orchid and the long-stemmed rose. The rose is a peculiarly interesting variety, having extraordinary lasting qualities and no thorns...
...Negro children. The Lord may have heard, but the audience was busy with other praiseworthy subjects. The hum of heterogeneous good will that rose from UNESCO's well-wishers almost drowned out the song. The music teacher who had rehearsed the chorus for weeks was so angry the orchid almost popped off her black evening dress; good will created its own exasperating tensions...
Astronomer Bart Bok of Harvard and Bacteriologist Stuart Mudd of Penn wanted to urge Russian scientists to urge their Government (thus far, outside and not even looking in) to join UNESCO. Orchid-draped Mrs. William Dick Sporborg, of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, sprang what she herself called "a surprise"-that the National Commission shelve everything else and concentrate on reducing tensions between Russia and the U.S. Assistant Secretary Benton thought that wouldn't get far "without the cooperation of Russia...
...roast supper in the basement of the Methodist Church-all the place would hold. Miss Lizzie, who used to be superintendent of the Sunday school, sat in the guest of honor's chair in her best black crepe dress with the beaded yoke, and an orchid, her first...
...long ago, the staid and refined Cantabridgia Club was transformed with the help of several sheets of orchid tinted boarding into the bacchanalian Club 100. Several blocks from this whoopee manufactory stands another old establishment with a new lease on life: yellow, clapboarded Brattle Hall. For years an annual set of Saturday night subscription dances, fondly remembered by contemporaries of U. M. Pulbam and others as the "Brats," were held here. And sporadically, throughout many a winter, its grimly rearward rooms were taken over by obstreperous young amateur thespians who would onliven otherwise dull performances by jiggling scenery and communicating...