Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...springtime the buds of the fruit trees swell and swell. Finally there comes a point where they cannot swell longer, and they burst- the peach tree into warm pink bloom, the apple modestly, into flushed white flower. So is it with Hiram W. Johnson and with William G. McAdoo...
...this is the political Springtime and "receptive candidates," who were the buds of yesterday, must burst betimes into active bloom unless they wish to wither with a canker of disappointment in their hearts...
...Some politicians, (for example, Senators Fletcher, Edwards, Oddie; Representatives Britten, Madden, both of Illinois; Representatives Gallivan, Burton, McFadden, Sol Bloom...
This is well enough, but such early rattling of campaign machinery is dangerous. Just as Democratic lemon-squeezing is premature, so is a Republican jamboree untimely. Before this, early campaigns have burst into bloom and have been nipped by a frost. If "the boys" climb aboard the Elephant and start lumbering down the race-track now, they may reach the finish before the judges have entered the stand. Then all the brave pageant will be turned to ridicule...
There are those who will object, of course. Fitzgerald, if he has done no more, has at all events painted a very lively and life-like picture of the present youthful generation in full bloom--has shown the flapper and her partner what they really are (or think they are)--has interested and amused a large percent of the careworn American Public; and for such things, should be thanked. Even if he does falter noticeably in his latest writings and his most strenuous admirers cannot but admit that he does the censure should fall "more in sorrow than in anger...