Word: florister
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...will be back," said one friend confidently, as they carted the countess off. "She is one of the most sensitively artistic persons I've ever met, incapable of hurting a fly." But Marga's florist shook her head. "A strange customer, that one," she said. "Always asked for flowers past the bloom...
Back in Vancouver, Edna's mother refused to talk to reporters. "Everyone liked her," said Edna's father, a fairly well-to-do florist. "She was a fine, healthy girl . . . perfectly normal...
...polished cowboy boots. He stayed there for 19 years, and in those years the city grew up. Up climbed the buildings. Up climbed industry, shipping, finances, while "Sunny Jim" ran things with a glad hand. When "Sunny Jim" left to become governor, he passed the mayoralty to Florist Angelo Rossi, who sailed into office with a carnation in his lapel...
Lapham has restored the confidence of San Franciscans in city government. Handsome, black-bearded Eugene Schmitz left an odor behind him that 19 years of Rolph and twelve years of Florist Rossi, honest as they were, never quite dispelled. Even Lapham's loudest critics admit his courage and integrity, and agree that he has raised the mayoralty to a high plane. Lapham himself is waiting for the voters' decision on July 16 with considerable suspense. He takes pride in his job. He wants more than anything else to go on serving San Francisco until...
Others shared his urge. Harvard's "Boaty" Sturgis, who wore a pink tie and reminded people of "a wild night in a florist's shop," trailed Estelle like a mooning spaniel. Wolfish Hugo Zachias, who had made a mint of money selling scrap iron to Japan, talked her into a weekend at his Spanish villa on Long Island. There were also jaded Bill Priest, who wrote scintillating advertisements for jewelers ("Evenings of wonder, these evenings of betrothal time"), and Croupier Joe Heeney, who had learned to hate race horses ("he had long since passed the point where...