Word: florister
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fisherman on the January morning he put to sea with crewmates of the trawler Fortunate Dragon. The father of three girls, he liked to spend his time ashore tinkering with neighbors' ailing radios and puttering in his garden. Sometimes he dreamed of quitting the sea and becoming a florist...
Free Gardenias. Webb's colleagues referred to him as the "man with a hundred voices-all alike.'' Unabashed, he talked KGO into letting him do a comedy show, lured in audiences by getting a florist to donate free gardenias. "Did you call me, doctor?" he would cry. "No, I called you nurse, nurse!" In the midst of these frenetic endeavors, fortune smiled on him-a round-faced, voluble Irishman named...
...present-day night-shift helper is Lewis Erlanson. A jack-of-all-trades, the popular Louie works for the Crime from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. and also is a part-time florist and Stadium program vendor...
...York Herald Tribune). Two are columnists (Stewart Alsop and John Crosby), and one (Richard N. Harris) invented the Toni. "We have a man who is coming to be recognized as the foremost ornithologist of our country [Sidney Dillon Ripley II] . . . We have a famous Fifth Avenue florist [Max Schling Jr.], the entrepreneur of a famous commercial language school [Charles F. Berlitz...
...good one. It rises out of Rumer Godden's autobiographical novel (1946) about an English girl growing up beside a holy river in India. Directed by France's Jean (Grand Illusion) Renoir, who wrote the script with Novelist Godden, and produced entirely in India by a Hollywood florist named Kenneth McEldowney, it is a sensitive, Technicolored record of youthful growing pains, enriched by a poetic perspective of life and a wealth of Indian sights & sounds...