Word: orchided
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...dressed up in a circle pin, a pearl necklace, an orchid and an ageless smile, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses handled a silver knife with the art that comes from practice. She was cutting birthday cake...
...Princess Margaret, an all-too-eligible bachelor girl, turned 29, was greeted by Britain's press with heartfelt congratulations and a bit of "will-she-ever" worry. At the royal family gathering in Scotland's Balmoral Castle, only one romantic mystery added spice to the day. An orchid corsage, ordered by cable from the U.S., was delivered by a local florist, who refused to name the donor...
...unbent visibly at a benefit ball held under Justice Ministry auspices in Paris' Palais de Chaillot. Limiting his decorations solely to the Legion of Honor, Old Soldier de Gaulle smiled properly and offered affable greetings to Movie Luminaries Yul (The Sound and the Fury) Brynner, Sophia (The Black Orchid) Loren, Maurice (Count Your Blessings) Chevalier, William (The Bridge on the River Kwai) Holden, Cary (An Affair to Remember) Grant...
...thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages." Last week at both universities, students were dreamily reviewing intricate plans for a modern form of the pilgrimage -the scholarly expedition. Some 20 such safaris-a record-breaking number-will set out from Oxbridge this June. They range from a one-undergraduate orchid hunt in Venezuela (the hunter got the idea while stalking frogs last summer in the same area) to a nine-man botanical, oceanographic and archaeological assault by Cambridge on British Honduras...
...Black Orchid (Ponti-Girosi; Paramount) is a sort of Marty-come-lately, inspired by one of the less startling of sociological discoveries: poor people are human. From this premise the moviemakers have deduced the facts of low-budget life as presented in this film: 1) poverty is cute, 2) stupidity is lovable, 3) sentimentality is feeling, 4) hard work never killed anybody, 5) suffering is actually good for people, and 6) anyway, there is always...