Word: blossom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When "the apple blossom of Bewdley" made way for "the hardware of Birmingham," Neville Chamberlain, the era of grand blunders had begun. High point, of course, was Munich. "Cato" does not believe that Chamberlain had to back down at Munich. Said the Prime Minister to somebody who questioned Hitler's promises at Munich: "Ah, but this time he promised...
...time when theatre managers are soothing the world's troubled brow either with raucous comedies or lavish musicals, "Boyd's Shop" blows into the Copley Theatre like a clean wind. It is a simple play about simple people with all the home-grown philosophy that is bound to blossom in Ulster. But St. John Ervine has put no haloes around his country folk; no sickening sentimentality. Instead, in the clash of old and new in rural Ireland Ervine has found the same problems which thrive in the largest city. And far from being "small townish," his characters...
...education, where Indian relics of the Stone Age still lie beside the railroad tracks, and where, in spite of everything, society evolves to create more generous, kindly and decent people. "Has man wandering in this worldly wilderness ever devised a better system than ours for making the desert blossom as the rose...
This has been a beautiful May day in Paris, with the horse-chestnut trees in blossom, and a rosy sunset over the Tuileries. Tragic splendor. Paris in magnificent. No nervousness, no panic. Paris waits in sad eagerness,. dramatic but sober expectation. The nation knows the danger, but knows, too, that it is fighting its won battle and the world's we are confident that the battle will become a victory. Goodbye, my friends. I do not say good-night. Tonight we cannot sleep...
Chinese legend declares that Chin P'ing Mei (Metal Vase Plum-blossom) was written by a famed 16th-Century Confucian scholar as a satire on the private life of a corrupt official. The official received a presentation copy, fell dead as he finished the last of its 1,600 subtly poisoned pages. No believer in such legend, Arthur Waley, expert on Chinese literature, says the novel's authorship is doubtful, like that of China's other famed novels. He traces first mention of it to a book published around 1600, wherein Chin...