All 50 Uses of
flora
in
The Westing Game
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- "Turn, dear," said Flora Baumbach, the dressmaker, who lived and worked in a smaller apartment on the second floor.
p. 9.7flora = a character in the story
- Startled by the small cry, Flora Baumbach dropped the pin from her pudgy fingers and almost swallowed the three in her mouth.
p. 9.8
- Crawling with slow caution on her hands and knees, Flora Baumbach paused in the search for the dropped pin to peer up through her straight gray bangs.
p. 10.2
- Flora Baumbach, about to rise with the found pin, quickly sank down again to protect her sore shin in the shag carpeting.
p. 10.5
- "My, oh my," Flora Baumbach exclaimed, and Mrs. Wexler clicked her tongue in an irritated "tsk."
p. 10.7
- "Doctor Deere is a brilliant young man," she explained for Flora Baumbach's ears.
p. 11.3
- Sensing that she was unwelcome at this end of the room, Flora Baumbach walked on.
p. 23.8
- Turtle laughed, Flora Baumbach tittered, and Grace Wexler again clicked her tongue, "Tsk!"
p. 24.1
- "He said it's snowing," Theo and Flora Baumbach explained at the same time.
p. 24.5
- Blinking away tears, Flora Baumbach returned to her seat, the elfin smile still painted on her pained face.
p. 24.8
- "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach, who scrunched up her shoulders and tittered behind a plump hand.
p. 25.5
- Flora Baumbach clapped a hand to her mouth on hearing "dastardly."
p. 30.0
- Flora Baumbach was the only heir to cry.
p. 31.5
- FLORA BAUMBACH, dressmaker
p. 33.1
- Sighs of relief greeted the naming of Turtle's partner, but Flora Baumbach seemed pleased to be paired with the kicking witch.
p. 33.2
- Flora Baumbach leaped from her chair at the next table, picked up the square of paper, and set it face down before the trembling youngster.
p. 36.7
- Flora Baumbach squeezed her eyes together and screwed up her face.
p. 37.9
- DURING THE NIGHT Flora Baumbach's itsy-bitsy snowflings raged into a blizzard.
p. 39.3
- "But am and o are separate clues," Flora Baumbach said.
p. 42.7
- Flora Baumbach may have been wrong about the murder, but she was not convinced of Turtle's plan.
p. 43.2
- Flora Baumbach had watched enough television commercials to know that Buy Westing Paper Products meant that as soon as she could get to market, she'd buy all the Westing products on the shelf.
p. 43.4
- "MT" Angela showed her partner the crumpled scrap of paper she had picked up along with Sydelle's dropped crutch during Flora Baumbach's tea party.
p. 50.3
- FLORA BAUMBACH (DRESSMAKING AND ALTERATIONS, REASONABLY PRICED) FOUND: SIX CLUES
p. 53.7
- On reading Mrs. Wexler's note in the elevator, Flora Baumbach had insisted, "You must do what your mother says."
p. 54.2
- Flora Baumbach's answer was "Perhaps so."
p. 54.3
- Flora Baumbach was sappy.
p. 54.4
- When they had finally reached a snowbound broker, Flora Baumbach was so nervous she dropped the telephone.
p. 54.5
- Flora Baumbach asked.
p. 62.2
- Flora Baumbach's pudgy fingers, swift with a needle, were clumsy with a comb, but after several tangled attempts she ended up with three equal strands.
p. 63.5
- Flora Baumbach cleared the catch in her throat.
p. 63.9
- "Tabitha-Ruth," replied Mrs. Wexler with a bewildered look at Flora Baumbach, who said "Alice."
p. 67.6
- Flora Baumbach appeared even smaller and rounder than she was as she sat twisting her napkin with hands accustomed to being busy.
p. 74.8
- Perhaps you've heard of Flora's Bridal Gowns?
p. 75.1
- Flora Baumbach lost her timidity; the judge let her chat away.
p. 75.2
- "Perhaps you should go to the hospital, Angela; it's been so long since you've seen your Doctor D." She winked mischievously, but only Flora Baumbach smiled back.
p. 78.8
- Next came Flora Baumbach.
p. 79.8
- Flora Baumbach caught a glimpse of SEA 5$8.
p. 80.2
- Angela thought it unnecessary to remind him that it was Flora Baumbach and Turtle who had asked about the quotation, not she.
p. 85.4
- Flora Baumbach, her strained eyes shielded by dark glasses, drove Turtle to school on her way to the broker's office and picked her up in the late afternoon with a sheet of prices copied from the moving tape.
p. 88.2
- But Flora Baumbach played fair and kept the secret to herself.
p. 88.5
- Neither did Flora Baumbach.
p. 93.2
- But Flora Baumbach was right about the resemblance.
p. 93.7
- "The last one alive wins," Flora Baumbach repeated.
p. 96.6
- Doug, too, Flora Baumbach thought.
p. 97.1
- "Bullish," said Flora Baumbach.
p. 100.1
- "Bearish," said Flora Baumbach.
p. 100.1
- IT WAS FLORA Baumbach who braided Turtle's hair now, sometimes in three strands, sometimes four, sometimes twined with ribbons, while Turtle read The Wall Street Journal.
p. 103.2
- — "That's nice," Flora Baumbach said, not understanding a word of it.
p. 103.5
- Flora Baumbach's hands were gentle, they never hurried or pulled a stray hair.
p. 103.8
- Flora Baumbach loved her, she could tell.
p. 103.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(flora) all the plant life in a particular region or period
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Flora is also used as female name, and was the name of the Roman goddess of flowers, spring, and fertility.