Word: bloomingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reminiscent old story it is. A musical comedy star (Merle Oberon) sprains her ankle and is treated in her dressing room by a handsome French interne (Charles Korvin). Ah, Paris-with the horse chestnuts in bloom! Miss Oberon's touring troupe moves on, but she has decided to be a poor Parisian housewife. The years slip by and Dr. Korvin obviously isn't getting rich at his research; but Merle seems happy with her wifely chores and her roly-poly daughter. Very suddenly, one day, Dr. Korvin suspects his wife of infidelity, and without asking for explanations...
Where the Bloom Is on the Sage. But all this took place on the eastern seaboard. When it was over, Texas-born Chester Nimitz flew back to the Lone Star State, where every man, woman and child knew all about him and felt he had contributed mightily to the greater glory of the greatest warrior race in history. In Austin, Christmas tree lights were strung up over the streets and in Dallas huge crowds yipped and whooped happily...
...With both Fullback Vic Kulbitski and Coach Bernie Bierman back from Marine duty, Minnesota was in bloom again. A 34-to-0 romp over Missouri, with Kul-bitski running wild and scoring three touchdowns, hinted that the Big Ten race might be decided when Minnesota met Ohio State...
Wrote Laurence, of the deathly bloom that rose from Nagasaki: "A giant ball of fire rose as though from the bowels of the earth . . . [then] a giant pillar of purple fire, 10,000 feet high, shooting skyward. ... At one stage [it] assumed the form of a giant square totem po'le, with its base about three miles long. Its bottom was brown, its center was amber, its top white. . . . Then, just when it appeared as though the thing had settled down, there came shooting out of the top a giant mushroom that increased the height of the pillar...
...They bloom, they wither, their leaves fall...