Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Anacostia Park, the two young-old lotus plants are still thriving. But until they are due to bloom, in about five years, Dr. Harding will not know just what sort of lotus grew in the Manchurian peat bog 1,000 years...
Manhattan's waning art season put forth a bright, belated bloom last week-a 57th Street show of sophisticated, slaphappy paintings by Writer-Illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans, 53. Done mostly with gouache, "because it comes in charming little French jars and doesn't smell," they spoofed and also celebrated the drifting, uppercrust, good-time world that Bemelmans inhabits. Their style mingled childlike cheer and simplicity with penknife stabs of caricature...
...makes a play for the landlady, a blowzy, bosomy redhead named Guinevere, who rambles on about past loves and lovers like a debased edition of Joyce's Molly Bloom. She teases, then repulses Mikey, ostensibly because of her husband McLeod, a gaunt, backslid Stalinist. Actually, she is having an affair with another tenant, Hollingsworth, a sadistic Government agent. A late entry in the sexual sweepstakes is Lannie, a Lesbian ex-Trotskyite with a touch of insanity who makes "strange" love to all but McLeod...
...Blondes. In the mazes of such quandaries, Wodehouse characters frequently wander down mysterious passages of prose: "Like so many young doctors with agreeable manners and frank blue eyes, Ambrose Gussett continued to be an iodoform-scented butterfly flitting from flower to flower but never resting on any individual bloom long enough to run the risk of having to sign on the dotted line." But in the end they generally find their way out, bearing on their lips a word of Wodehouse wisdom...
...fine spring day, the general bundled himself and his wife into a car, drove out to Connecticut to see the dogwoods in bloom, pay what was described as a social call on Remington Rand President James H. Rand, who had offered him a job, reportedly at $100,000 a year. The papers were full of reports that MacArthur had also been house hunting on Connecticut's Contentment Island, but a MacArthur aide denied the stories...