Word: fleurs
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...parents of Fleur, the prostitute, were illiterate. French-Canadian mill hands, the father an alcoholic, the mother notoriously immoral. Fleur's first affair, when 11, was with the father of her mother's bastard. The family lived in squalid poverty, were chased from hovel to hovel, sometimes for not paying rent, sometimes for debauching the neighborhood. Fleur's adolescent peccadillos took place in cellars. Later she became a common street walker...
...boots and yachting cap. Most of his staff, during a lull in their enforced tour of duty with the troops, were still in uniform. A gay note was the guard of honor, dressed in 14th Century Florentine helmets and breastplates and carrying not Fascist banners, but the ancient white fleur-de-lis of the Republic of Florence...
...organization and that the Hitler Youth leader, Baldur von Schirach, had passed it by. Last week von Schirach announced that it, too, "is no longer warranted," dissolved it and forbade its leader. Eberhard Plewe, to conduct further work among boys. The last of the German Scouts laid away their fleur-de-lis Scout badges. Presently they will be issued the swastika emblems of Hitler Youth...
...Blenheim, Britain's sift in 1704 to the great first Duke, the Marlboroughs pay annual rent to George V of a banner emblazoned with three "flower-de-luces" (fleur...
...Papa La Fleur, an old man, descendant of French voyageurs, lived peacefully with his two daughters, made a living by keeping bees on an island in the river. Dolly, his eldest daughter, still a fine figure of a woman, had come home from a year in Chicago changed, embittered. But she never told anyone what had happened. Linnie, the younger, just grown up, loved her home but wanted to get away. Milo, a neighbor who raised orchids and was not otherwise exciting, kept trying to get her to marry him, but she was not enthusiastic. When rumors came that...