Word: floring
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While homage was thick in London, Paris burbled over Picasso's latest joke. Sitting as usual in the evening at the Café de Flore with a chic woman, the forelocked Spaniard who has the Midas touch was joined by three picture dealers, then by three more. He picked up an empty cigaret package, cryptically manipulated it under the table, finally brought out a little figurine of a dancer with the remark: "Well, there's the latest Picasso." Amid a chorus of admiring compliments, artist and girl friend departed. The six picture dealers were just on the point...
...society page of the New York Herald Tribune one day last week appeared the following item: "Mr. and Mrs. Debar de Brunhoff, of Paris, announce the birth of triplets, Pom, Flore and Alexandre, early in March in Paris. The entire family is now in New York visiting Mrs. Richard A. Kimball (Josephine J. Dodge) at 714 Madison Avenue. Mrs. de Brunhoff is the former Miss Celeste d'Aguillon, of Paris...
...these more than 32,000 mounts were added to the organized collection, bringing the total at the herbarium to approximately 950,000. Based on the private collections of Asa Gray, pioneer American botanist, the Herbarium is the world's finest collection of North and South American flore, representing more than a hundred years of continuous, carefully directed growth...
...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...