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Mrs. Niemeyer imagines roses and receives three dozen at the Waldorf
Description
A friend of Neville's, Mrs. Niemeyer, heard him tell the rose story at a New York lecture, imagined embracing a huge bouquet of roses, and that night found three dozen long-stemmed Beauties in her room at the Waldorf Astoria towers — left over from an English-Speaking Union banquet for Queen Elizabeth, sent up by the head waiter because she loved roses.
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Location
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Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 0 (probable)
- c. 1961 (probable)
- before 1967 (possible)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 6 November 1967
- 3 November 1954 (probable)
Told
22 September 1969(refuted)- 6 November 1967
- 21 June 1969 (possible)
- 21 June 1969 (possible)
- 6 November 1967
Sources
- Source: The Potter's House ¶10 (A friend of mine — she’s gone from this world now — in New York City, many, many years ago, I told a story similar to this tonight, and sitting in my audience, she said, well, now I’m going to test this, and in the silence she embraced a huge bouquet of …)
- Source: Walk by Faith ¶13 (A few years ago I gave a similar lecture in New York City and a lady in my audience decided to test me. While sitting in her chair she embraced a large bunch of roses.)
- Source: The Bible Is Addressed to the Imagination ¶19 (In New York City one night when I was giving something similar, a lady sat in the front row…and she lived in the Waldorf Astoria.)
- Source: Personifications, Not Persons ¶28 (One lady one night said, “I will test it now.” She wasn’t altogether certain it would work, but she embraced a huge, huge bunch of flowers, roses. She could detect the aroma of the rose.)