Word: blossom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most royal favorites have been the object of romantic interest rather than of affection. A pleasing exception is little Nell Gwynn, capricious blossom of the London gutters, mistress of light-headed Charles II. England has always loved the orange girl and actress of old Drury. She was said herself to have had a warm and kindly heart. Almost the last words of her cynical royal protector were said to have been: "Let not poor Nelly starve...
Osaka, the classic home of the cherry blossom and wickedly slant eyed damsels, become another Goblier Prairie? No doubt the student representatives were asked to address the Uplift Society. It is flattering to the American sense of superiority to find no spot, however remote, which does not honor the American Main Street by careful imitation. Henceforth, the wearied American can find no lotus laden sanctuary. The Old World is imbibing the go-getter philosophy in great draughts; Doctor Frank Crane's volumes are the best American seller in France. Even the Orient, dazzled by magnificent illusions of this wonderland...
Belle Case LaFollette, wife of the Senator, having made two campaign speeches for her husband, one at Montain Lake Park, Md., the other at Manhattan, was in a fair way to blossom into a full-fledged campaigning orator. It was decided that she should not accompany the Senator on his tour, and the party managers were reported as offering her employment during his absence...
...opening of College each year sees a new group of experiments planted, the great majority of which never blossom but wither and die before the succeeding Fall rolls around Some few annually mature and become with time lusty and revered institutions of the University...
...meet pressing obligations and was not to show especial love for the U. S., the "Klan" cabled Fuka- zawa, President of the Electric Co., who was in the U. S., to cancel all bond subscriptions or make up his mind never to return to the land of the Cherry Blossom and the Death Penalty Club...