Word: orchided
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Among the dimly lit midnight blue and rose appointments of London's newest and most expensive nightclub, the "Orchid Room," a middle-aged Briton swayed slightly in his chair, comfortably close to a bucket of champagne. From time to time he would wave vaguely at a French girl warbling seductively in the spotlight. "Vive la France!" he pronounced with dignity, "Vive la France...
...remembers them, they were all so horrible that he reviews the experience with "insuperable repugnance." He was highly unpopular with other boys, and, in turn, loathed both them and the masters. One of his contemporaries was Lord Digby's son, who frequently received a box of orchids from the family conservatory. Osbert sometimes got an orchid to wear in his buttonhole; he is "still grateful," he says, "for the magic with which these flowers temporarily touched so dreary an existence...
...President Jackson, Tennessee-born, grew up in Florida, studied law in Virginia, spent most of his early business days in the tropics. There he collected rare orchid plants, also found a wife (the sister of famed airman "Billy" Mitchell) and a job as an attorney for United Fruit. Now he is United Fruit's vice president and general counsel as well as president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. A lifelong Democrat, Jackson classified himself as a "social-minded conservative." He promised to wage a vigorous campaign to revise the Wagner Act, to outlaw "unfair practices" by labor such...
...driving woman, Elizabeth Arden gets up early every day, even if she's been up late the night before. She okays all her ads, thinks up most of the names for products (Blue Grass, April May, It's You, White Orchid, Winged Victory), and found time to get married to Tom J. Lewis (for 15 years) and to Russian Prince Michael Evlanoff (for 13 months). She is unmarried now. She has her own ideas of perfection, and demands it of her employes, even if a chemist has to spend days remaking a color until Arden herself thinks...
...pick an orchid in the back yard of the house on bomb-battered Leveriza Street where TIME'S Manila correspondents live, but you have to lug some chlorinated water home if you want to brush your teeth. There are half a dozen bullet holes in the walls, and the staff of five TIME & LiFErs there had to get along without lights at night for quite a stretch...