Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slender Secretary of the Treasury came the bride. Her entire gown was of point d'Angleterre over cream satin, with a court train of the same lace. Her veil was of tulle with a circlet of pearls about the brow and held in place by a spray of orange blossoms on each side. She wore long sleeves, and her dress came within ten inches of the floor. Her bouquet was voluminous with white orchids and lilies of the valley. She wore a string of pearls...
...have beaten out of 22-carat gold, just as some 400 years ago self-righteous, scapegrace Goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini beat out ingenious knicknacks for Giulio de' Medici (Pope Clement VII). These smiths have tinted lightly the petals of this Rose with pink, the leaves with green, so that the spray glistens with a heart-stopping iridescence of varied movement and light. To aid verisimilitude the spray contains a secret phial which the Pope himself filled with balsam and essence of musk before handing it to Monsignor Ferdinand de Croji, whom he charged to deliver it to Queen Elizabeth...
Married. Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of the William Kissam Vanderbilts, to one Earl E. T. Smith of Manhattan; at the W. K. Vanderbilt mansion, soon to be replaced by a commercial structure, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Exuberant, the Chicago Tribune reported, "Four gallons of rare perfume were used to spray the interior of the house...
...stepped with a fairy pride across the expanse of Chinese lacquer which separated him from his mate, and the two, meeting, caressed each other with delicate gestures of affection. A hummingbird, with feathers blown in pearl color and crimson, flew from his perch, alighting on the leafy chandelier; the spray that received him bent and swayed and from its largest rose a petal drifted to the floor...
...rounds passed. Berlenbach outboxed, registered no change of demeanor. But Slattery? A tiny spray of blood worked at his lips. The speed was faded that had touched him with beauty like a fire. Berlenbach swung his left hand. Slattery fell, got up again. Four times in the tenth, three times in the eleventh round, his body lustreless now, crumpled under terrible blows. The referee stopped the fight...