Word: orchideous
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...extraordinary, the announcement that J. P. Morgan & Co. so far as it knew had taken no position ? that "speaking generally" its power companies were believed to be abstaining from intervening in the question of public ownership -won the approval of Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer of Manhattan; Mr. Untermeyer, famed orchid-wearing epicure, son of a "Virginia planter who served in the Confederate Army" (his paragraph in Who's Who) is not a man ordinarily to be found aligned with the House of Morgan and the power companies. Now 71, he has been an active lawyer for more than 50 years...
...MISS GERMANY WEARING STUNNING ORCHID GOWN BEGINS SLOWLY PACING HORSE SHOE GREETED THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE...
...last horse was Hermitage, owned, trained and ridden by orchid-shirted Earle Sande, oldtime jockey...
...serious matter was the late famed Joseph ("Joe") Chamberlain's daily practice of appearing in the House of Commons wearing an orchid. This extravagant tradition, though abandoned by his son Sir Austen Chamberlain, now Foreign Secretary, is still staunchly upheld by Sir Harry Brittain, M. P., who was chairman of the British Hospitality Committee for U. S. officers in London during...
...They were cousins, Mary and Florence Kenrick, and successively wives to that famed Joseph ("Joe") Chamberlain, who seldom appeared in the House of Commons without an orchid in his buttonhole, and was, from 1893 to 1905, Colonial Secretary. From Mary Kenrick he begat a son and daughter, from Florence two sons and three daughters, from his third wife, Mary Endicott, no babe...