Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, it will be better with music," broke in Author Cohan as Singer Bloom swung into the chorus...
Into President Hoover's office one day last week marched short Representative Sol Bloom of Manhattan, oldtime music publisher, theatre owner and now a director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission. Beside him marched beaming, grey-haired George Michael Cohan, famed flagwaving actor, producer and songwriter. After presenting Mr. Cohan to the President. Congressman Bloom elaborately explained that the author of "Over There" had composed a new song to be used officially by the commission for its nation-wide celebrations next year. Declared Mr. Cohan: "The name of my song, Mr. President, is 'Father of the Land...
...President Hoover, no musician, took the sheet and glanced over it, Congressman Bloom hurried on to explain that he was not trying to "plug" the song by White House publicity because "Father of the Land We Love" was not to be sold commercially but was to be distributed free throughout the land by the Federal Commission for 1932 singing. However, after leaving the President's office, Mr. Bloom stopped in the White House press room, stepped up beside a bust of George Washington, and began to sing the first verse...
Paul Plummer Swett, Jr., of Bloom-field, Connecticut...
...unduly modest misstatement. Albert Brisbane's writings were prosy, meatless, platitudinous. Their most apparent influence on Arthur Brisbane's style is in the persistent use of capital letters. Sample: "The great Agriculturist . . . whose genius causes the earth to bloom more luxuriantly . . . and the great Mechanician . . . must be honored as highly as the scheming Politician or the intriguing Statesman, whose intrigues fill the World with conflict and discord." Son Arthur Brisbane carries capitals further. Samples of last week: "It pays to THINK AND WORK. NEITHER, BY ITSELF, WILL CARRY YOU FAR. . . ." "No nation could exist HALF STARVED AND HALF...