Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Senator Frazier of North Dakota rose, said that Mr. Nye was at hand, asked that he be sworn in. Solemnly the old Senator led the new one down the aisle. An oath was sworn...
...with a stony countenance rose from his place across the table. He was Albion K. Parris, onetime president of the District of Columbia Society. Glaring at Mr. Hughes and speaking in a voice thickened and knotted with emotion, he told the company how deeply he regretted the aspersions which their honored guest, the novelist, had cast upon a stainless memory. He said that he did not believe that George Washington was immoral. . . . Down the length of the white cloth, angry heads nodded agreement. Nobody was looking at Mr. Hughes now. The men who sat on each side of him pretended...
Queen Elizabeth, slim, valiant helpmate of slim, valiant King Albert I of the Belgians, received last week a sprig of 19 roses, roses that smelled sweetly of balsam and musk, the gracious appreciation of a noble woman held in high esteem by His Holiness Pius XI, who was born Achille Ratti, a papal gift for her silver wedding anniversary. The roses were artificial and constituted the famed Golden Rose...
...Golden Rose has long been the symbol by which the Vatican linked itself to notable current events, or expressed appreciation of outstanding acts of piety. Formerly it was given yearly to the incumbent prefect of Rome for guiding the reins of the Pope's horse in procession. Gradually the presentation has become rare until now, when the Rose to Elizabeth is only the second given in the last three pontificates. Only once has the Rose come to an American rulerLeo X sent it to Duke Frederick of Saxony, supplicating him, in vain, not to sustain Devil-seeing Martin Luther...
Castle Square--"Abie's Irish Rose", at 8.15: Some people accuse us of being cynical in our reviews, but really we aren...