Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eruption, caused by eating strawberries. Obviously the last-mentioned malady has no connection with pollen. A few pollen grains may accidentally be present, but strawberries are not inhaled ; not even by French gourmets.* Pollen in plants corresponds to semen in animals, and is produced only at the time of bloom by the male organ in the flower. Would it not be of more importance to a journal like TIME, catering to people of some intelligence, to have such a simple, fundamental fact stated correctly, than to parade a lot of French kindergarten phrases, such as "c'est les fraises...
Repertory is, its belittlers will say, merely a glorified title for the "stock company" which flourished in full bloom in the pre-cinema era. Repertory is also, however, a glorified stock, for the plays presented under the Le Gallienne regime and in other similar organizations are produced with an eye which although not totally oblivious of commercial values considered the artistic taste of the public to be of a respectably high average...
...Alice Roosevelt Longworth should run for Congress she would certainly win; that most women now in Congress owe their position to being widows or wives of onetime Congressmen, not to their own merits; that women in Washington "pull the strings of power"-all this said Miss Vera Bloom last week in Washington. Miss Bloom, daughter of Congressman Sol Bloom, Democrat of New York, spoke at the second world welfare conference of the Women's Universal Alliance. Miss Bloom also said: "Mrs. Coolidge is worth $1,000,000 a year to the Republican Party. Her grace and charm are real...
...boyish grin and wispy figure of Edward of Wales are so familiar in London dance halls and saloons (TIME, Feb. 7, 21), that when he motored out to Hastings, Sussex, last week, past fields of primroses all in saffron bloom, Britons wondered if His Royal Highness would not tread a measure with some buxom Sussex wench along a merry primrose path. Soon he contrived to exceed all expectations. . . . Wenches were, of course, not lacking. Hardly a "pub" in Hastings is without its ruddy Sussex barmaid. Had Edward of Wales but stopped in to dash himself against a whiskey and soda...
When I closed the pages in a mood of reminiscence and looked again at the cover rather wistfully, I though. Yes, we can make fun of children's stories, but this doesn't seen; to rub the bloom off. We like them all the more for their artlessness, their quaint little ways. And how harmoniously the editors worked together to create their Wonder-Book and to maintain throughout their tone of genial fantasy...