Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Santa Rosa, in Sonoma County, Calif., where Pacific breezes make days pleasant and nights chill, for 50 years Naturalist Luther Burbank has been making a bit of desert bloom weirdly yet profitably. Since 1875 he has been on his experiment farm mating pistils to stamens in strange concubinage, getting sometimes a beautiful scion, sometimes a grotesque mongrel, sometimes finding a futile barrenness. Last week Naturalist Burbank was elated, greeted pressmen with news of seven miracles of hybridization in plants. He reported a new camassia, blue tinted, excelling all others in beauty and ability to multiply; a rainbowteosinte, a giant corn...
...Callers at the White House included: Richard M. Tobin, U. S. Minister to the Netherlands, to pay his respects; Governor John W. Martin of Florida to invite the President to visit his state this winter (the gentleman from Florida was shocked to see a bed of pansies in full bloom on the White House lawn); Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland to explain a plan for creating a Department of National Defense (uniting War, Navy and Air-a plan to which the President is opposed) ; Senator Willis of Ohio to discuss plans for getting the Senate to approve...
...causes public squares to bloom, fountains and bands to play, and sandpiles to grow for the kiddies...
...enthralled local Chamber of Commerce, Congressman Sol Bloom, member of the House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions, recommended that Brooklyn hold a world's fair and permanent international exposition in 1932 in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington. He proposed the use of 2,200 acres of undeveloped park land on Jamaica Bay, the erection of buildings with 5,000,000 square feet of floor space for exhibits by the U. S. and 46 foreign governments, a stadium to hold 200,000 people, parking space for 100,000 automobiles, the highest tower...
...safe to predict that Abie's Irish Rose" will bloom for a long time in Boston. There is no reason to believe that jokes which have been considered funny since their infancy many, many years ago will suddenly lose flavor. And after all, none of the new jokes have lasted as long as the old ones have...