Word: orchid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engagement Denied. Miss Mary Eaton, musical comedy actress, to Boxer Georges Carpentier, "gorgeous orchid man of France." Said she: "Preposterous . . . he is married and has children...
...Sporting Club of France, Georges Carpentier, "Gorgeous Orchid Man," competed with William Harrison Dempsey. High was the goal, the battle stiff. First Dempsey, then Carpentier led; but at last the U. S. pugilist weakened, his thick struts could no longer hoist his knotted bulk; Carpentier took a great leap to the fore, carried off the victory. The event was high jumping. Dempsey missed at 5 ft. 1 in.; Carpentier cleared...
Wahabis. With an increasingly jealous eye, the Emir of Nejd and Hasa viewed the opportunist power of his enemy, Husein, grow like an orchid upon the air. The brow of the beturbaned giant with the coal-black beard became furrowed with anger at the irreligion of the Shia and Sunni Moslems. He would crush them, and off to Mecca he went with 72,000 fanatics before him. He would depose their upstart Husein, he would purge Islam of Moslem impurities. He, Faisal Ibn Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud, Calif of the Saud Sect, would rule all Islam with the sword...
FATA MORGANA-Emily Stevens as the city orchid who frolicked for an evening with the rustic rambler...
...bashed nose, a greasy Orchid...