Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High points of the current issue: a satirical sketch of Representative Sol Bloom of New York who "allows George [Washington] to share in his publicity stunts'' as director of the George Washington Bi-Centennial Commission; an assault upon President Hoover's Unemployment policy as "a food dole substituted for a money dole"; description of Illinois' Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson's bewilderment when President Hoover curtailed the duck-shooting season: "What do you know about that guy! He must think that ducks vote in Illinois...
Irving. Actress Terry first indirectly wrote to Critic Shaw about the musical prospects of a protege of hers. The correspondence continued, grew more & more intimate, but Bernard and Ellen did not meet for eight years. By that time Shaw had married and the romantic bloom had apparently withered. They did not see much of each other afterwards, though Ellen Terry later played the lead in one of Shaw's plays (Captain Brassbound's Conversion). Says Shaw: "She was always a little shy in speaking to me; for talking, hampered by material circumstances, is awkward and unsatisfactory after...
...last week Congressman Bloom was more concerned about an old London street song called ''The World's Turned Upside Down" than he was about Composer Cohan's "Father of the Land We Love." When Lord Cornwallis' troops surrendered to Washington's Continental Army at Yorktown, Va., Oct. 19, 1781, the British bandmaster picked that tune for the unhappy march. Next October as a prelude to the Washington bicentennial, a pageant at Yorktown will re-enact the scene that ended the Revolution. President Hoover will speak. Last month the sponsors of this local celebration...
...Bloom: The surrender scene was most dignified, most pleasant, most courteous in every respect. To run a pageant without it would be like having a motion picture without an ending...
...Bloom: Nobody need go further than the Capitol to find an authentic painting of the surrender in which just 37 persons appeared and only three of them were British.† All the British soldiers had laid down their arms and passed from the picture before the actual surrender occurred. . . . General Cornwallis, being indisposed, asked his subordinate General Charles O'Hara to present the sword, denoting defeat. General Washington designated General Benjamin Lincoln to accept it. I believe Washington did not even allow his men to cheer...