Word: orchid
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Many of them wore tuxedos. The men sported while carnation boutonniere, the women orchid corsages...
...wore a dress that most U. S. department stores were soon to feature: soft blue crepe with a tight, buttoned bodice, a halo-shaped hat of the same color. At her throat was a tremendous diamond-&-sapphire brooch. Mrs. Warfield carried a prayer book, wore a large lavender orchid at her waist...
Names conjured more romance then. Jess Willard was the Pottawatomie Giant. Georges Carpentier was the Orchid Man. Luis Angel Firpo, the Argentine, was the Wild Bull of the Pampas. Those were Dempsey's great foes. Knocked clear through the ropes by Firpo in the second round, Dempsey came back to floor the Wild Bull an eighth, ninth and tenth time...
...filigrees had the delicacy and tensile strength of Victorian wrought iron, but his subjects-fauns, satyrs, naked slaves-earned him a reputation of fearful decadence. Even in the prurient "yellow nineties," when young men dragged live lobsters down Pall Mall on silken leashes, Beardsley was singled out. "A monstrous orchid," Oscar Wilde proclaimed him, a judgment unchallenged until...
Twenty years later, it is still cold and windy. And there are still five Democrats to every Republican. And the steelworkers on the 3-11 shift still have one too many on Saturday night, and the town police send the squad cars down to the Rhapsody Cafe and the Orchid Lounge to clean up the mess...