Word: bloomingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Southern California, where panaceas grow like seedless oranges, his One-Two Plan began to bloom, on the radio, on the platforms of clubs and societies, in gatherings of small rural home owners, little business men. Mr. Wittwer aimed to complete a nationwide organization by 1940. Soon Otto Wittwer hopes to be more content with the way things are going...
...terrier, the terrier fans in the galleries nearly bit each other with anxiety. When he looked at the cocker, the cocker fans' hackles rose. Finally Judge Milbank stepped up to My Own Brucie, handed Owner Mellenthin the best-in-show rosette. "He was in the most beautiful bloom," said Judge Milbank. "He is a real champion...
Inside the monumental building, Sol Bloom put on an accustomed and respectful air; his manner signalized that Congressman Bloom was walking with history. For those to whom history is anniversaries it was indeed a historic occasion: and he had done it. If it had not been for him, the Court's 150th birthday might have been completely overlooked. With patriotic satisfaction Congressman Bloom heard Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Charles A. Beardsley of Oakland, Calif., president of the American Bar Association, and Chief Justice Charles Evans ("Zeus") Hughes extol the sesquicentenarian Court. Said Chief Justice Hughes...
Inglorious Infancy. Although it would hurt Sol Bloom to admit it, the Supreme Court was not always the imposing body it is today. At its first meeting, in the 2½-story Royal Exchange, at the foot of Manhattan's Broad Street, Feb. 1, 1790, only Chief Justice John Jay and two Associates turned up. Next day two more of the six Justices arrived from Virginia, making a quorum. In its first two years only one case came before the Supreme Court, was quickly dismissed because of an error in the writ. John Jay found plenty of time...
...book are glowing accounts of some of the thousands of men who were "Steinached" during the roaring '20s. They changed, says Steinach, from feeble, parched, dribbling drones to men of vigorous bloom who threw away their glasses, shaved twice a day, "dragged loads up to 220 lbs.," even indulged in such youthful follies as "buying land in Florida...