Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time of Charlemagne is surrounded by plants listed in an old herbarium of the period. Most famed plant at Washington Cathedral is the Glastonbury Thorn, grown from a cutting from the British one which is supposed to have grown from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea. The British Thorn blooms occasionally on Christmas. The U. S. Thorn, planted 30 years ago, did not bloom until 1918. Said Dean Bratenahl: "Perhaps the blooms have waited for a true Christmas, when the hearts of men should be filled with goodwill." Last Christmas the Glastonbury blooms were the best in years...
...Conference for Education in Texas. In the Texas Outlook last week appeared his "Interpretation of Texas Week" (March 2-9) in which he said: "During that week nature is waking her sleeping children from their winter sleep, the invigorating breezes are blowing, the flowers are bursting into bloom, the trees are fixing to robe themselves in their glorious garments of green, and the peaceful valleys and hillsides are spreading their blue bonnet carpet...
...Marc Peter presented to President Hoover Sculptor Ernest Durig. Sculptor Durig presented to President Hoover a plaster bust of George Washington so large (seven feet high) it had to be left outside on the White House lawn. Asked the puzzled President: "What shall we do with it?" Representative Sol Bloom, director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, was summoned to find an answer...
...chairman of the Bicentennial Commission, organized in 1924 and put to work in 1930, Congressman Bloom has been in charge of disseminating posters, pamphlet biographies, music, the George Michael Cohan song, the MacKaye masque, and 30 other Washingtonian items about the U. S. To members of Congress he distributed, for a trifle each, statuets reproduced from the Nolleken bust. To 1,000,000 schoolrooms he distributed a poster made from the Athenaeum portrait. As unofficial censor of the move to honor Washington, he endorses most of the commercial enterprises submitted to the Commission, suggests a fair price for Washingtonian matchboxes...
Heretofore, as factory worker, bookkeeper, reporter, theatrical producer, furniture dealer, realtor, concessionaire, song-publisher and showman, Congressman Bloom has had small time to master the fine points of esthetics. He cannot find the time to master them now, but he has familiarized himself with the career of Washington and considers it his principal duty to see that others do so also. When Congress tried to cut down the Commission's appropriation from $477,000 to $200,000, he took the floor to protest. Preoccupation with the father of the country which his own father adopted has bred in Sol Bloom...