Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hallway ornamented with portraits of himself and his wife, he would have reached a small cubicular office in which, almost submerged by the litter of trinkets, statuets, posters, portraits, folders, busts, pitchers, seals, plaques, gewgaws, jim-cracks and other Washingtonian bric-a-brac, he would have found Sol Bloom of Manhattan, associate director of the nationwide celebration. Commissioner Bloom is a small, round-faced 61-year-old Jew of Polish descent who was born in Illinois, raised in San Francisco and introduced to U. S. politics in 1923 when Tammany Hall, knowing him as a successful music publisher...
...office to buy likenesses of the first U. S. President. By nightfall over 40,000 philatelists from far and near had secured more than a million stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth. First in line were Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio and Representative Sol Bloom of New York, members of the Washington Bicentennial Commission, which plans elaborate celebrations throughout 1932. After they were served, 25 clerks were kept busy distributing the new series of twelve Washington stamps, cancelling them so that collectors might have the valuable date of issue. One dealer came from New York...
RECAPTURED -Colette- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Though civilization has pretty well rubbed the romantic bloom off what the Bible and lawyers still call adultery, the theme was for a time almost a monopoly of the essentially unromantic French, still appeals strongly to their rationalizing writers. "Colette." whose books continue to be translated for a growing U. S. audience, has had her share of this national literary preoccupation. Colette-readers will recognize in the heroine of Recaptured the same Renée Neree of Renée, La Vagabonde (TIME, March 23). Renée, retired from the stage...
...touch-football tournaments for the last four years, suffered a defeat at the hands of Psi Upsilon, the champions of Brown University. The Brown team displayed speed and strategy and overcame the Sigma Alpha Mu defense, scoring an 18 to 6 victors. The Harvard touchdown was scored by Arthur Bloom tGB, on a long forward pass which he snared on the 20-yard line...
Yesterday afternoon Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity defeated kappa Sigma by a score of 6-0 to win the inter-fraternity touch football championship for the fourth consecutive year. The touchdown was scored by Bloom as a result of a lateral and forward pass which enabled the Sigma Alpha Mu players to break through a strong Kappa Sigma defense. The winners have accepted the challenge of the Brown University touch football team for a to decide the New England championship...