Word: skullcapped
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...country's wild flowers he must never pick pink Lady's Slipper, Indian Moccasin, Liverleaf, Turk's-cap lily, Lady's Tresses, Rattlesnake Plantain. In moderation the Garden Club allows the picking of Grass of Parnassus, New Jersey Tea, Bluets, Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin's Bower. If the urge to pick simply overpowers a city-dweller, the Garden Club begs him go for Blue-eyed grass. Bouncing Bet, Horse Mint, Daisy Fleabane, Devil's Bit, Lousewort and Viper's Bugloss. Violets, daisies and goldenrod are all right...
...herself, dies from the effects. But not without telling him a few things that leave his life a desert. The Author- Andre Paul William Gide, reputed the most powerful figure in contemporary French literature, looks like a lean and sinister clown, loves mystery, theatrics. Bald, he often wears a skullcap, a shawl over his shoulders. His early books were such immediate failures he thought seriously of abandoning writing. At 40 (he is now 61) he learned English and translated Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman into French. Gide's chief claim to notoriety is his sympathetic exposition of homosexuality...
...such ceremonies. The Coolidge Cabinet, led by Frank Billings Kellogg (who will continue as Secretary of State until the arrival of Henry Lewis Stimson) took reserved seats well forward. The Chief moved up to the rose-decked reading stand among the microphones. Chief Justice Taft, in black robes and skullcap, moved to his side. Supreme Court Clerk Elmer Cropley handed the Chief Justice a small, new Bible, ribboned to Matthew 5 (The Sermon on the Mount). It was really raining...
...Nebraska there was a lump in the throat of a kindly old man, who wears a skullcap. Loved by many, twitted by many more, Charles W. Bryan, onetime Governor, Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1924, brother of the late Great Commoner, he had tried to come back in the gubernatorial race, but was defeated by Governor Adam McMullen by a slim margin...
...from the front row. It, too, had been the first Covent Garden performance after the War, when a shabby tweed audience replaced the pompous black. Yes, La Bohème was good. But so was Romeo et Juliette, which she had studied with Gounod himself-Gounod with his velvet skullcap and his velvet smoking jacket-Romeo et Juliette in which she had made her first successful London appearance with Jean de Reszke her Romeo, his brother Edouard the Friar. And there was Otello, fruit of Verdi's Indian-summer genius. She had sung Otello for the Master himself...