Word: snapdragon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaving England in which radio messages are sent to her concerning the health of her baby, Princess Elizabeth, now under the personal care of the Queen-Empress Mary. Flower names were chosen by the Duchess as baby code words. Rose: well and happy. Dogwood: whooping cough. Lily: sleeps well. Snapdragon: colic...
...rather terrifying fun, began! The leaping thin flames, blue and yellow like wild pansies, turned the laughing players into a shifting, shrieking, witch's circle ... a whirl of darting hands and skirls of laughter and pain. . . . Where's the dictionary? "Flapdragon-Snapdragon.-A sport in which raisins or grapes are snapped from burning brandy and eaten. See example I " "The wantonness of the thing was to see each other look like a demon as we burnt ourselves and snatched at the fruit. This fantastical mirth was called Snap-dragon.' "STEELE, Toiler...