Word: orchided
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...last week the special train of Their Majesties the King & Queen of Siam entered the U. S. at Portal, N. Dak. Lean farm families and their shivering hound dogs crowded the snow-swept platform, pressed close to the brightly lighted train, peered at the Oriental monarch as at an orchid in a showcase...
During the hearing, smart Lawyer Samuel Untermyer, stanch Tammany man who always wears an orchid in his buttonhole, objected to the admission of privately secured testimony, accused Referee Seabury of "prejudging the case." Tall, patrician Inquisitor Seabury flushed and said quietly: "I consider that remark grossly impertinent...
Neville Chamberlain might make a great leader of the Conservative Party. But outside of England his merit, nay even the fact that he exists, has been obscured by the fame of other Chamberlains, his relatives. Old Joe Chamberlain, he of the haughty monocle and the orchid boutonniere, was a leading British political boss at the turn of the Century, though he never became Prime Minister...
...wife is Sir Austen Chamberlain, famed Nobel Peace Prize winner (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). Many people privately consider him an affected blockhead, the husband of one of the smartest "political wives" in Europe. Austen copied his father in all ways as best he could (omitting only the 19th Century orchid); he made a name once as great as that of his friend Briand; and he retired with the Garter...
...shades of a late great writer and of others not so great slide and fade across the pages of Robert Nathan, sometimes linger there. Anatole France's is the biggest shadow; lesser ones, not so clear in outline, resemble O. Henry or Richard Harding Davis. The Orchid is like a miniature in enamel: ingenious, smooth, fitted cunningly into small spaces. It is not. a novel but a satirical fable, a grownup fairy story...