Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Butterflies prosper, indeed, live longer, when their heads have been cut off. Professeur Bouvier based his report on research made by Abbé Cambouet, missionary to Madagascar, who experimented there on 80 big, bloom-patterned flutterers...
...water in among the beans. Like the droplets that crawl into men's beards to soften them for shaving; like the droplets that stole into the wooden wedges of Egyptian quarrymen exhuming stone for the Pyramids; like droplets that will steal into compressed Chinese waterflowers to make them bloom in bowls on Occidental library tables-so stole droplets of the yellow Yangtze flood in between the starch layers of the Rhineland's myriad passive beans, making them swell and shoulder one another, making their mass bulge and press against the triple-riveted bulkheads, until the bulkheads slowly burst...
...would not think that the Yard is about to burst into bloom. Trunks stand at each entryway, and express trucks career and careen along paths where on ordinary days only a desultory laundry cart is now and then to be seen. The dingy, white lumber heaps that desecrate the greensward beneath them and the elms above, give no inkling that they will look much better in company with twilight and Japanese lanterns. Now they add a minor crudity to the normal grotesqueries of the Yard...
This advertisement, captioned "WHEN BURNSIDES WERE IN BLOOM," came in due course to the attention of Miss Patterson of Milwaukee, a niece of the General. Contending that Colgate & Co. by using her relative's whiskers as a "springboard from which to launch a jocose and humorous sales argument," had obscured the record he won on the battlefield, she took her case to Arnold Furst, Manhattan lawyer. Lawyer Alan Fox will represent Colgate & Co. The two counsels were 'classmates at Yale in 1903, partners in many a college prank...
...hearing inferior lectures which they would cut were they given at college. So perhaps they are quite necessary. At least they do keep the Billy Sunday tradition vital in the college world and give many a young wall flower the chance to escape her destiny of being born to bloom unseen...