Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter M. Chandler was elected in that 'district to the 67th (last) Congress, with a majority of 18,650 votes over his Democratic opponent, Major Kennelly. But when it came to election to the 68th (present) Congress, he faced one Sol Bloom. Mr. Bloom is a gentleman of career: "at an early age" he went into the newspaper business, then he went into the theatrical business, and before his 21st birthday had "built a theatre." Next he became a music publisher, with 80 branch stores, and gained the title of "the music man." He "later became identified with...
...result of this contest for the place in the 68th Congress was that Mr. Bloom was declared elected, 17,909 votes to Mr. Chandler's 17,718. Mr Chandler called for a recount, and the majority against him was reduced from 191 to 126. Mr. Chandler then took the contest to the House of Representatives, charging fraud and irregularities...
...Congressman Bloom, on the honest sentiment of this district, was elected by over 1,000 votes. There was found in the ballot boxes on the night of the special election at which he defeated Mr. Chandler nearly 700 ballots cast in sections of the district inhabited largely by Hebrews and marked for Mr. Bloom, but unfortunately marked at the end of his name-to the right hand of the voting square instead of the left, and outside of the voting square, marked by men and women accustomed to read the Hebrew language-a literature which reads from right to left...
...Trailing clouds of glory do we come" from school which was our home, and so, figuratively speaking, most freshmen come with the bloom hardly rubbed off their cheeks. But after a year together they are supposed to have outgrown childish things, and to act, if not as men, at least as "college men." By senior year, the average undergraduate has supposedly earned the title of "dignified." But of late a custom has developed among seniors which leads to the supposition that some have reached a second childhood; for the noisy "Reinhardt Night" seems to be extending itself to include every...
Paris sees the year out with the modernist Salon d'Automne in full bloom at the Grand Palais of the Champs- Elysees. This is one of the five regular annual Paris Salons, and may be called the neo-academic showing en masse of the younger, progressive and cosmopolitan groups of painters, once called "fauves," now broadly classified as followers of Cezanne...