Word: orchid
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...Jewish emancipation in Germany. Veidt does full justice to the part, which unless capably played, is not an entirely sympathetic one. A man who subjugates every other desire, including that of love, to his desire for power is hardly a lovable character: yet Veidt makes him so. An orchid, or its eighteenth century equivalent, is certainly due Frank Vesper for his performance as the Duke of Wurtemberg, Suss's master. He fits perfectly into the background of Rebecca door-ways and flying cupids. His amorous advisees are suitably unsubtle. Pamela Ostrer is distinctively beautiful in her part as Suss...
...letters describe the body variously as silver and orange, orchid and light green; its shape is depicted, by comparison, as a mop handle, a boy's kite, a pop bottle, or, most commonly, a sky rocket...
Newswoman Jane Grant was not permitted to speak English with Japan's Puppet, had to talk to him through an interpreter who "controls" what he says. But Emperor Kang Teh did manage to press directly upon her some of his special cigarets, emblazoned with the "Imperial Orchid" of Manchukuo...
...unfair word to apply to the armament makers of France--yet it must not be said with any melodramatic connotations. Probably the conspirators are not bad men at all in their personal lives and their individual contacts with society. Sir Basil Zaharoff, the passion of whose declining years is orchid culture, would probably not be aghast at the suggestion that he was the greatest murderer the world has ever known. He has heard it too often. And he may even enjoy the irony of his gifts (they took a few millions out of the hundreds of millions he made from...
Layman or priest, whoever did the job rates an orchid...