Word: flower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Feb. 11, I noticed you referring to the Prince of Wales wearing a "red" carnation when in evening dress. You called it a "joke" but it merely showed that the Prince "knows his flowers" and you don't. A red carnation is the proper flower for evening wear...
...ever wear a flower in your buttonhole? Or do you think a fellow who wears one a sissy? If you do, you are wrong. The man who wants to wear one and does is more of a man than the man who wants to wear one but doesn...
...wouldn't want to wear a flower!-and any man can who wishes to; that is, any man who is sure of himself. . . . PAUL T. OSTERBY II ("Osterby the Florist") Stamford, Conn...
...token of the 250-year Byrd tradition, as precious as her wedding ring. It is a ring of old white gold set with diamonds. Two hundred years ago it belonged to Evelyn Byrd, "the fairest flower" of Colonial Virginia, who, when she was presented at the Court of St. James's, met the gallant Earl of Peterborough. They fell in love and became engaged to be married. But when Evelyn Byrd returned to Virginia, her father flew into a rage. The Earl was a Catholic. The daughter of a loyal Church of Englander might never marry him. The lovely...
...same since he chose between her and his son. An old admirer asks Florence to elope with him; she is on the verge of so doing but the old admirer refuses to let her take along her baby. That spoils the elopement. Walter at this point comes barging in, flower-laden, to find Florence at the telephone asking Junior, whom she has never welcomed, to come home...