Word: orchid
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...statesman should be known by one or two features, not for a variety. Monocle and orchid were priceless assets to Joseph Chamberlain. Everyone thought of Gladstone in terms of collars. . . . Anthony Eden's adoption of the Foreign Office hat secured him. . . . But Churchill! What protean changes his hats represent, embracing official and naval cocked hats, army pillbox, hussars' busby, service cap, steel helmet, sombrero, Oxford degree hat, artists' berets and paper party hats...
...gazed at the flowers he could see them still (the Zogs) as though it had been yesterday. There they were, all three of them. All dressed in identical black dresses, with identical gold shoes and identical orchid orchids, all chattering merrily away to one another in sign talk. (This is getting pretty close to lose majeste; perhaps we'd better go on to something else...
...John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse, to convince the Professor that doctors must be gentle as well as skillful. John Wesley's own life is leavened by what Author Douglas calls his "process of orientation" to Lan Ying ("orchid"), an American girl brought up as a Chinese...
...worse: "Now that I'm a capitalist, I hope this Hitler drops dead." Reward In Cincinnati, the Traffic Safety Council decided to reward motorists who perform outstanding acts of courtesy and consideration. The reward (to be given each week to the city's most courteous motorists) : an orchid...
...seldom meet, when out to walk, Either the Orchid or the Auk. The awkward Auk is only known To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone, While Orchids can be found in legions, Within the equatorial regions. So if by chance you travel on The Lena or the Amazon, Be certain of the temperature Or you will make mistakes I'm sure...