Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...works. George, the eldest, suggested one line of Barrie's play, Little Mary, and received one ha'penny royalty for each performance, until he was killed during the War while serving as a Lieutenant. The second son, Michael, said to have supplied the inspiration of Mary Rose, was drowned five years ago while an undergraduate at Oxford. When Sir James heard this news his grief was great. He sat in a darkened room, refusing to see anyone...
Castle Square -- "Abie's Irish Rose...
...rose Mr. Rockefeller, his esthetic face long with mock seriousness, his eyes laughing with mischief. He told his thousand auditors that Dr. Fosdick, just back from Europe, had attended a meeting of the building committee the day before, had examined the building plans, had expressed fear that the church would be so long that the preacher's voice would not carry to its depths. He was told not to worry, that of lesser concern than the length of the church would be the length of the sermons. The dining Bible students laughed heartily...
Most specific is the description of St. Ephraem, the Syrian: "God took human form and appeared with a stature of three human cubits while at the same time assuming all things. He rose upon us little of stature...
Wednesday. Marvelous morning. Patou called me up and asked if I should like to try on my dresses. Would I like to try them on! An old-rose coat trimmed with fur, a satin cyclamen evening frock, a white silk tennis dress wonderfully cut, one walking dress of rose, another in pale grey. This is simply too divine, I thought; it just isn't true. But when I jumped out of the car at Patou's, there were all the reporters sitting around, staring at the manikins, the frocks and me, like morticians at a flower-show. Dieu...