Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Astor Fur Co. and Custer's Last Stand. The piece ended in this trite but nevertheless moving passage: "The great buffalo herds of yesterday live only in the songs of the West now, and where not long ago there were log cabins and small settlements, modern cities bloom-Kansas City, Omaha, Bismarck and all the others. Bridges cross the winding river, carry trains and automobiles from one bank to the other. The beaver has crept away, but men have built new dams-dams which tame the once treacherous river and produce power for the farmer's lamps. Peace...
Britain's dingy, cotton-weaving city of Lancaster (pop. 50,250) has lost most of the glamour and importance that clung to its name in the days of John of Gaunt and the Wars of the Roses. But it cherishes today one spectacular bloom in the person of its dashing Tory M.P., Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean, 39, whose recently published bestseller, Eastern Approaches, has made its author one of the most popular political figures in the United Kingdom...
...slow first act and two seemingly aimless ones following it expelled two people sitting behind me. These people missed a treat in the last two acts of Ibsen's great play. It is then that the characters, ideas, and comedy of "The Wild Duck" bloom, in some of the most masterful writing of modern theater. The acting parallels the movement of the play, reaching a brilliant climax in the last two acts...
...mother's garden, or the fruits and vegetables for her kitchen, the results were sparkling. He had the knack of putting flowers into many-faceted, highly polished pictures without seeming to disarrange their leaves and petals. The driest of artists, he knew how to keep the bloom on a peach or the dew on a blossom. His talent had never been robust; the fact that his best works were evocations of things so elusive and so close to perfection as flowers was a measure of its fineness...
...Open Women's Purses.." Certain words in ads and sales talks are "repulsive" to women, he said. Examples: habit, bra, leathery, sticky, parched, calisthenics, crust, matron, clingy, model. Good sales words, which "appeal to women's hearts, emotions and vanities": poise, charm, graciousness, dainty, twinkle, hope, blush, bloom, bachelor, crisp, fairness, garden...