Word: flor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about 10:30, something happened. For the next-to-last of her baker's dozen of songs, Meller chose "Flor del Mal" (Flower of Sin). It tells, with the utter simplicity of all Meller's repertoire, the hopeless, disdainful story of a street girl. Her clothes were shoddy, ill-fitting; her hair slovenly, black about her forehead. Midway in the singing Meller moved out on a little platform almost over the heads of the first row, and lighted a cigaret. She smoked it singing and walked over to lean, dejected, against the stage wall. The song ended and she disappeared...
...sold his name, picture and reputation in connection with such a low-priced* cigar as those advertised." Other cigars named for famed persons : 15 cents or less: Peter Schuyler, Rob ert Burns, (Daniel) Webster,f (Vitus) Bering (discoverer of the Straits), ‡ William Penn, Raphael, Duke of Savoy, Flor de Spencer, Hanan Bros. (Shoe People), Tom Wilson, Lady Churchill, Captain Marryat. More than 15 cents: Henry Clay, Manuel Garcia. Cigars named after fictional persons: Monte Cristo, Robin Hood...
SERENA BLANDISH-A Lady of Qual-ity- Doran ($2.50). "Though it is better to marry a young man, best to marry a rich man, next best to marry a distinguished man, it is better to marry a crossing sweeper than not to marry at all," said Countess Flor di Folio to Serena Blandish when, struck by the girl's beauty, poverty and discretion, she made her a member of her household and launched her upon her desperate enterprise. She met many men who made proposals to her but not of the kind she wanted to hear. For, although Serena...