Word: orchid
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...scion of masters of the Cordwainers' Company,* maltsters, brewers, cheesemongers and ironmongers, was the first middle-class Englishman to move with arrogant authority among Victorian England's ruling class. Symbols of his good opinion of himself were the monocle in his cold, irritable eye, the invariable orchid in his buttonhole. He wrecked two parties to which he belonged, Gladstone's and Balfour's, and each time emerged greater than before. His platform was social reform for poor Englishmen, confederation and preferential tariffs for the Empire and, internationally, an understanding between Britain, the U. S. and Germany...
...Ziegfeld goes into a slump. He recoups again, puts four simultaneous hits on Broadway, mortgages their receipts to play the market. When Producer Ziegfeld died in 1932, he was heavily in debt.* In this particular, the picture is historically trustworthy. Its hero is shown expiring in elegant penury, an orchid in one hand, repeating to the Great Stage Director his favorite professional motto: "I must have more steps...
...Manhattan, Leonard J. Winston, 26, $30-a-week real estate and insurance salesman, met and wooed Elinor Samuels last September. Winston convinced the girl he was rich, took her on a luxurious West Indies honeymoon, gave her so many orchids other passengers knew her as "The Orchid Lady." Then he brought her home to his Manhattan flat and showed her the gas range. In one month of home life she used 24? worth of gas. Last week he sued for a separation. Ruled Justice McGeehan: "Unless she goes back to her husband and does the work which is concomitant...
Mississippi's loud, stubby Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo invited the entire State to a housewarming at his new 27-room "Dream House" at Poplarville. Curious, hungry Mississippians wolfed the Senator's sardines, crackers and grapejuice, bugged their eyes at five gaudy bathrooms including an orchid-&-black...
...women flyers, the most consistently feminine is 30-year-old Laura Ingalls. She sports high heels, lipstick, orchid corsages, wears silk lingerie under her dungarees when working. She also has a sharp female tongue in her head, as clumsy airport mechanics upon whom she has used it can testify...