Word: peaches
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...Fizz Peach...
...some 16 years rotund, toothless George Herbert Naylor has worked for a wholesale grocer firm in Wisbech (rhymes with fizz peach), Cambridgeshire. For almost every one of those years his plump wife Lillian has borne him a child. George's wages are ?4 10s.. a week. His eldest daughters Marian (18) and Hazel (17) bring home some ?3 between them from jobs at local shops...
Gone too was disastrous Rule 42 C of the Defense Regulations, which had closed 174 nightclubs because the police had "reason to believe there was drunkenness" on the premises. Some 15 establishments had survived, ranging from the plushy "400" (newly decorated in pale peach and amber) to the brash "Nuthouse," whose walls are inscribed with legends like: "Through these portals the most beautiful girls in the world have passed...
...that for you, lord or no lord. They be fine people, the Digbys, got no swank with them either, friendly as you please. And there's no doubt about it," adds Mrs. Shuttle, "he could sell that fruit at twice the price. I bought a peach from him for sixpence that would have cost me one and six in Dorchester...
Henry VIII believed that his new bride, Anne Boleyn, was comparable to the finest products of the royal orchards-"a wife with a strawberry breath, cherry lips, apricot cheeks, and a soft velvet head like a melicotton [peach]." But old Farmer Brocke insisted that the new Queen was actually the daughter of Old Nick, as was proved by the fact that she had a mole shaped like a strawberry on her white neck, and sometimes touched it with her left hand-on which grew a rudimentary sixth finger. Farmer Brocke believed that King Henry had married a witch...