Word: bloomingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cavalier's famed sunken gardens were not yet in bloom, but every day the hotel management sent up baskets of spring flowers, mainly King Alfred jonquils. The P.M. ate in the hotel dining room, and Chef Gene Gualko successfully stimulated his appetite with all sorts of southern dishes and sea food. At almost every meal, Mackenzie King ordered Virginia bacon. Once he got away with two whole broiled lobsters and was "crazy about them...
...York Yankees crowned Operatic Soprano Helen Traubel Miss Symphonic Matinee of 1947 and gave her an autographed baseball. Veteran Muralist Dean Cornwell reported after a coast-to-coast tour that in good looks "suburban girls lead city girls," and have "better developed breasts, more streamlined figures ... a lasting, healthy bloom to their skin. . . ." Sweden's 88-year-old King Gustaf moved down to the French Riviera for the sun & fun. Arid in Britain's House of Lords, Christopher Maude Chavasse, one-legged Lord Bishop of Rochester, plugged for a ban on liquor in workers' restaurants...
Last week Smith's beard was in bushy bloom. So, after three embarrassing months (during which one man was mistaken for an escaped convict), were the beards of many males in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. To go with them, womenfolk dragged out their grandmothers' dresses. With beards, bustles and a banquet, Poughkeepsie celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Smith Brothers...
...time Paricutin has been erupting for a thousand years, it, too, may have collected its gaudy legends. Until the legends bloom, it will have only the true miracle-tale: the story of an Indian peasant who tilled his cornfield and one day grew a tall volcano...
This type, whom demagogues affect to love, Joyce really loved and loathed, grieved for, impersonated and laughed himself sick over. With Freudian penetration and unFreudian humor, he understood Bloom's mind as a river of non-sequiturs and fantasies of fear, guilt and desire-a gigantic living ragbag, intermittently aware of his fellows, and at the same time tiny, lonely and abandoned in a vast, fearsome universe...