Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...putting on entertainments that will attract paying guests-are a series of acts which show what has become of old-fashioned vaudeville. Samples: Gracie Allen. George Burns and Ben Blue dancing the minuet; Martha Raye stretching her monstrous mouth; Jack Benny in a burlesque version of Love in Bloom; Marsha Hunt and Leif Erikson singing to each other...
...Stanley Baldwin when he eased King Edward from the Throne while loudly protesting that what he had done was to try to keep His Majesty on (see p. 16). In Britain it is the simple solution which is always sought and usually found. In China nothing so takes the bloom off a proposed solution, nothing makes a Chinese statesman so unwilling to bite on it, as simplicity. There could be in China last week no simple solution, and as usual the complex story was replete with curious characters...
...Scotland, where optimism is unfashionable, able editors were dourly convinced last week that the Press has not seen the last of the non-gossip features of the Edward & Mrs. Simpson story. Its gossip aspects last week were just bursting into brightest bloom...
...entire world some authentic moments of exhilaration with a speech which made it seem that those popular peace men Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann lived again-also that the admirable Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact "Renouncing War as an Instrument of National Policy" had all its original freshness and bloom...
...returned to von Sternberg. They made The Scarlet Empress, based on the life of Catherine of Russia. It was a picture characterized by a peculiar violence of background and a remarkable tedium of pace. By making a much better picture on the same subject, Elisabeth Bergner rubbed the first bloom off the von Sternberg-Dietrich prestige. Still there was no hint of rift until with dramatic abruptness von Sternberg told an Associated Press reporter he was going to break with Dietrich. He said he had done all he could to further her career, that he considered he would hinder...