Word: bloomingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strictly a family man with a wife and two baby daughters, Lamar spends his spare time fooling around with a hobby he learned from Harlow, that of interest in plant life. At the moment, a Christmas rose, which he swears will bloom in the snow, occupies some of that precious time which he doesn't spend one the football practice field...
...Reginald Gardner are atmospheric. The fact that Cinemactress Grable's histrionic legs are here shrouded in fancy skirts may sadden her admirers. But she makes up for that in one high-stepping number which has something of the shock value that might result from watching grandma, in the bloom of her youth, chuck an old rip under the chin with the toe-point of her slipper...
...Type and High Jinks. Novelist Llewellyn apparently intended to do for London Cockney Mott what James Joyce did for Dubliner Bloom in Ulysses. Then he changed his mind, reverted to melo dramatic people and situations, but kept the stream-of-consciousness style and some phraseological high jinks...
...Victory gardens, no less than Russia's farmlands, cry for seed. Especially acute is the problem in the recaptured territory, swept clean of food and seed by the retreating Nazis.* Today, all over Free Russia bloom "Acres of Friendship." The seed from these is the free farmer's gift to his newly liberated brethren...
Johnny dies-on Christmas day, of course-in time to allow Katie (from whose beauty the bloom has not been rubbed by years of scrubbing tenement hallways) to marry long-suffering Ser geant McShane, whose invalid wife also conveniently expires. Francie, as the book ends, gets to college, thanks to McShane's $10,000 a year (he has become a Tammany Assemblyman...