Word: flo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, last big film funeral at Forest Lawn was that of Irving Thalberg, whose remains were taken from B'nai B'rith Synagog for interment in a $25,000 room in the Mausoleum. Jack and Lottie Pickford are in a family room in the Mausoleum, Flo Ziegfeld and Marie Dressier in crypts. Other famed Forest Lawn dead: Lon Chaney, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, King Gillette, Senator Frank Flint, Edward L. Doheny Jr., Alexander Pantages, Guy Bates Post. Harold Lloyd, Composer Carrie Jacobs Bond and Jess Willard will lie in the Mausoleum some...
...Scutari, Flo and her charges sweep the dirty corridors, poison the rats, reduce the death rate from 42% to 2%. Ably publicized by the London Times correspondent (Ian Hunter), their efforts infuriate the chief physician (Donald Crisp) who considers female nursing a sin & a shame. Flo goes to the front hospital at Balaklava, catches cholera, gets back to Scutari to find most of her good work undone. She does it over again, returns to London, gets from Queen Victoria a brooch and the recognition which has been her aim: that women are worthy to be wartime nurses and that nursing...
...White Angel (Warner) is Florence Nightingale (Kay Francis) paddling about London in a state of sombre indignation because she has nothing better to do than play the piano. One evening morose Flo stays home from a party, reads the reports of her father's committee on the conditions of nurses in London's hospitals. The conditions are appalling and Flo's life work is cut out for her. She goes to a German nursing school, returns to England at the outbreak of the Crimean War (1854), wangles permission from the War Office to take a band...
Some of her subsequent madams, testified Renee Gallo, were named Peggy Wild, Gussie, Nigger Ruth, Elsie, Cokey Flo, Jenny Benton, Little Jenny, Jenny the Factory...
...readers first became aware of them when William Beebe landed there (1923), reported huge lizards, other peculiar fauna. Two years ago they flashed into the news, with a dramatic mystery no Sunday-feature writer could have bettered. A free-love back-to-nature colony on the little island of Flo-reana, peeped at and reported from time to time by curious yacht-trippers, had come to a boil, exploded. Two corpses had been found on a neighboring island. "The Empress of Floreana" and her No. 1 lover had disappeared (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934). Of the couple who had been...