Word: bloomingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon turns out that he is white-collar-deep in a mess of international jewel-and-art thieves. But the man who has survived the horrors of home (including a terrible little lap dog) is more than a match for sinister Boris Karloff, the Goldwyn Girls in full bloom, and even rotund Thurston Hall, the screen's unrivalled embodiment of extreme unction. Just in the nick of time Mitty saves the blonde and himself from a fate worse than death...
...Wolfie," who had some difficulty getting Elda's name straight, used to rub the bloom off their tenderest moments by murmuring into her hair, "Ella," or "Ida," or "Edna," or "Nella" (the names of his previous wives). With the help of a numerologist, she converted Elda into Hedda and Wolfie never barked up the wrong tree again...
...dark red roses. Over the roses, hands across the sea stretched and missed, and fumbling, missed again. Somebody had a perfectly sound idea that British and U.S. leaders should get to know each other better; but, like a lot of other good ideas, this one failed to bloom...
...Alley patch as Dardanella, Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong, Blue Is the Night, Ireland Must Be Heaven, and Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine. But Peg O' My Heart grew more slowly than Fred Fisher's other hits, did not reach full bloom until the doughboys came home whistling...
...which starred Pearl White during the wild, playful childhood of the movies (roughly 1910 to 1920). It is also a new, bright-colored, strident biocomedy about the late Miss White, starring Betty Hutton. Betty starts as a sweatshop girl, moves on to become a dumb theatrical trouper, bursts into bloom as the queen of silent serials, and fades off into a Paris nightclub when movie audiences tire of her innocent melodramatics. On the way up she falls in love with an arrogant stage actor (John Lund) who resents her screen success; in the last scene, after a crippling fall...