Word: florists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Masaryk turned up in the Oct. 6 issue wearing his spectacles upside down, more than 100 of you said you noticed it. Fifteen of you, presumably equipped with magnifying glasses, even noticed that there were 56 stars in a floral facsimile of the American flag made by a Mexican florist...
Pagan Survival. "The undertakers," writes Randall, "offered some complaint about cutting into their incomes. 'We still list $100 funerals, but we can't make any money on that kind of business,' one explained. ... A florist . . . voiced the most pointed complaint. 'You [ministers],' he said, 'want to take this sum that is to be saved and use it for your own purposes. You ought to consider if there aren't other ways in which you can derive income from funerals without interfering with our business...
Hordes pack the florist's shops, buying all conceivable sorts of Christmas decorations. Students were reported to be carrying away dozens of wreaths, with a smaller demand noted for table trees...
...Reader Link lend his abacus to the Chapultepec florist...
TIME, Sept. 22, cut of five West Point cadets and officer carrying floral facsimile of "Old Glory": the local florist of Chapultepee should have [ascertained] the correct number of white stars to be inserted in the field of blue...