Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minced down the narrow, correct way she had been taught, the prize might have been hers. But alas for corsets, in her very first season she blacklisted herself by letting an ineligible bachelor kiss her in a conservatory till all hours. Tongues wagged her market-value down & down. The bloom off, nobody came near but drones. Monica peered, preened and pined to no avail. Her father disappointedly died, her old-maid friends grew more virginal every year, her mother kept a stiff lip stiffer. Things looked pretty dismal for Monica when the biggest drone of all finally settled...
...issued a special Congress stamp, with a cross, "Inter-nationalis Congressus Eucharisticus" and "Eire" (Ireland). Throughout Dublin some 450 loudspeakers have been set up to broadcast the affairs of the Congress over a 15-mile radius. Dublin florists advertised seeds which "if planted immediately will yield a wealth of bloom for the Eucharistic Congress." Another advt. said: "Enhance and prolong their stay by treating them to a night's rest on a 'Nelpha' mattress or bedstead." Dublin set up floodlights and searchlights, asked its citizens to help with electric lights and candles. An arclight, most powerful ever...
...long been a subscriber. Largest order handled by Romeike in a single month was that of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission to which it delivered 76,203 clippings since Jan. 1, 39,771 in February alone. At the minimum rate of 4?, the bill to publicity-loving Congressman Sol Bloom, head of the Commission, would...
...things of greater moment. He looks out from the hills and moors of Gloucester, where the waves and the great gulls shoreward go and love and fame to nothingness do sink. Or he turns to a nearer wonderland, to a walled garden where the lilacs, now past their fullest bloom, but lovely still, run in purple and mauve along the quiet walks. A rampart of hills slope toward the sunset, and their sides are covered with the flower called the torch azalea, whose scentless beauty can teach the Vagabond more than all the sages can. Further on there...
...Spring day, a place more talked of than visited by Harvard men, though even the Yard with its trees and its few remaining grassplots and its memories must yield to it. They little know of Harvard who only Harvard know, and have not seen the lilacs in bloom, or that side of the university where beauty is more than scholarship, and pedantry is harmlessly confined to the Latin labels on the trees...