Word: bloomerism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SACK THE SHMOOS? Results of the poll last week swept the Shmoos out of Britain and back into the Valley of the Shmoon. For the Shmoo: 3,750. Against the Shmoo: 7,552. Admitted the Pic: "We dropped a brick. We pulled a boner, made a howler, a bloomer." For the benefit of true-blue Shmoo-lovers, the newspaper ran a synopsis of the unpublished part of Capp's Shmoo sequence. It also printed a perplexed farewell: "Critics have called the Shmoos 'the greatest satire since Swift's Gulliver's Travels...
...Bloomers & Doctors. Goucher College (present enrollment: 740) had a tradition all its own. It was the first women's college in the U.S. to establish a department of physiology and hygiene; its alumnae were among the first women ever accepted at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. It encouraged other innovations, Goucher had its bloomer girls when bloomers were still a shocking novelty. Nowadays its students take only three courses at a time, are tested not merely on the facts they know but on such broader matters as their understanding of scientific method, their enjoyment of art, their grasp...
...wistful story of a girl who could rope a steer, but not a man, had the feel of a familiar classic. One reason: Theatre Guild scouts had seen that first performance of Rodeo and persuaded Agnes to do the dance numbers for Oklahoma! Then followed One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, Allegro and this year's brilliant ballet, Fall River Legend...
...final show, the audiences saw Up in Central Park, with several members of its Broadway cast. The big favorites, however, are such sentimental standbys as The Great Waltz, Show Boat and Babes in Toyland. The directors usually bypass Broadway hits like One Touch of Venus or Bloomer Girl, considering them too gamy for the family trade...
...spring Boston sportwriters leaped on old Joe McCarthy and his Boston Red Sox. They had boomed the Sox as the team to beat in the American League, and the Sox simply had not lived up to their advance notices. The writers dubbed the team the "bloomer boys," and wrote long, helpful columns telling Marse Joe McCarthy, winner of eight pennants for the New York Yankees, how to run a ball club...