Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painting until 1903. In that year he met Pierre Auguste Renoir, bought twelve paintings right off the bat and soon became a fast friend of the old painter. Before the artist died in 1919, Steelmaster Gangnat had accumulated no less than 150 paintings in the softly-modeled, peach-bloom style of Renoir's later years. After Maurice Gangnat's death in 1924, his son let all but 50 paintings go at an auction. The fineness of the 50 last week impressed the Pennsylvania Museum's severest critic, Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes of Marion, Pa., who himself owns...
...perennial peeve is in bloom again. Spring vacations seem to be all around us and a glance at the calendar of the 1938-39 catalogue gives cause for suspicion that our next year's vacation will be just as late and just as short as ever...
Twenty years later Claude has settled down as the wife of a farmer. Husband Ernest, though he leads a peasant's hard life, is no peasant. He dreams only of making enough money to buy back the family chateau, restore its ruins. As farm & family chores rub the bloom off Claude's romance, she takes to her memories for consolation, in spare moments begins to scribble in a copy book. By the time she has joined the past to the present she has filled and destroyed three little books, has lost the desire to fill any more...
...wame is obvious. His paunch has long since passed the embryonic stage and now protuberates in full bloom-a reproach to his brothers and a byword to his friends...
...Representative Bloom in reporting these figures to the House was underestimating his activities. His commission has 87 employes, working in 21 offices...