Word: buttercup
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...Pretty tunes and pretty Ivy Sawyer contributed gently. Raymond Hitchcock, infrequent player in Manhattan of late years, developed ingenious theories on the sex of the sardine; was aided ably by Eric Blore, an ass, very bally. The indomitable Mrs. Thomas Whiffen (who first appeared some 50 years ago as Buttercup in H. M. S. Pinafore), danced spryly to an old-time waltz...
...called Little Buttercup, Dear, Little Buttercup, Though I could never tell...
...still I'm called Buttercup...
Dear, Little Buttercup, Sweet, Little Buttercup...
...that she had come to the U. S. to undergo operations that may save her sight. . . . Meanwhile the Manhattan hotel has a bill of $500 hanging over her head. The cafeteria refuses further credit. It is only too evident that the world knows her no longer as Dear Little Buttercup but sees in her broken body only the dust of a withered flower that has been inconveniently blown into its midst...