Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Sol Bloom of Manhattan, having been abroad on the streets of Washington on Memorial Day, introduced a bill in Congress to require all citizens to salute the Star Spangled Banner when it passes in parade. Said Mr. Bloom: "In the heart of the nation, people are patriots, but in the Capital there is a spirit of indifference...
...called "The Band of Gold," and has been recruited largely from the ranks of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The players (120 of them) are costumed in scintillating yellow uniforms. Their faces beam with merriment. They blow their horns with hilarious gusto. Their cheeks puff out like full-bloom peonies...
...Passed a resolution awarding to Sol Bloom a seat contested by Walter M. Chandler in the New York 19th Congressional district (See Page...
...longer seems to be waiting for a closeup. Except for a farewell scene, Sidney Blackmer has the cold, damp passion of a clay statue. He seems hardly to have the resolution to kill himself-as he threatens to do at regular intervals but never does. A moonflower is a bloom that lives only between dusk and dawn. In this play of love on a one-night stand, at times its fragrance fades...
...Electoral College. But there was a contest over the validity of 22 electoral votes. A commission of five Representatives, five Senators and five Supreme Court Justices (eight Republicans and seven Democrats) gave the 22 votes to Hayes. Hayes was elected with 185 electoral votes to 184 for Tilden. * Sol. Bloom is generally credited with authorship of the advertising slogan "His Master's Voice...