Word: flore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until Sister Mary Josephine fetches her back. Old Googli, the cannibal, fashions a pottery jar from the skull of lascivious Brother Francois who had made an insane attack on the sacred virgin of the medicine man. At Madame Boul-boul's tavern, "Admiral" Delabouche and his crony play dominoes. Flore arrives and the town takes pride in its first courtesan who becomes the Administrator's mistress. The fragments fit into each other to form a crazy-quilt pattern in black and white...
Barkeeps 6 Gangsters, Edward Flore of Buffalo, president of the Hotel & Restaurant Employes' & Beverage Dispensers' International Alliance, denounced as untrue the report that Capone mobsters had forced 20,000 speakeasy workers into his union in Chicago as a part of their program to control the liquor business if & when it becomes legal. "We are organizing in Chicago," said President Flore, "but no strong-arm methods are being used. We have about 250 or 300 bartenders and 800 to 900 waiters in our organization. The bartenders are earning their living selling soft drinks, but we are preparing to take...
...Study of the vocabulary of Dante's lyrics. 2. The classification of Dante's miscellaneous lyrics. 3. The influence of Boethius on the Vita Nuova and the Convivio. 4. A discussion of the authorship of H. Flore. 5. A study of Dante's influence upon Eng- lish literature. 6. The relation of Dante's theological doctrines to the present teachings of the Church of Rome. 7. The main reasons for the increase of interest in the Divina Commedia during the past fifty years. 8. The relation of modern scientific discovery to Dante's conception of the divine order...