Word: blossom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before sleeping, all of the flowers in the room were "put to bed." and one blossom was selected to rest on Gabrielle's pillow. And there were prayers. Gabrielle had taught herself the Lord's Prayer from a book, and she repeated it each night as though actually thinking through the words. Like all children, says her mother, Gabrielle was "a natural believer with an enormous faith in God . . . I guess it's only as we grow older and become paved with pride and knowledge that we lose our understanding and begin to doubt and forget...
...time, museumgoers are likely to be both tantalized and delighted by what they see. The Duke of Berry's Belles Heures, illustrated by his personal painters, the three Limbourg brothers, breathes the freshness of morning. Embossed with gold, it sparkles with flower-bouquet hues, including the exquisite borage-blossom blue, a pigment so precious that the duke listed two pots of it among his treasures. The queen's handbook was meant to delight as well as instruct. The Nativity (see cut) introduces the text for sunrise prayers, but just in case courtly heads should begin to nod, Artist...
Captain Fisby tries desperately to Get Down to Business, but Sakini keeps slyly bringing him pleasure in the form of the local geisha girl, name of Lotus Blossom (Machiko Kyo). He pleads eloquently for the erection of a pentagon-shaped schoolhouse, but Tobiki has suddenly worked up a democratic impulse to build a teahouse for its geisha girl to work in. In the end, when Colonel Purdy drops in for a surprise inspection, he sees before him a peculiar democratic vista. Captain Fisby, wandering around town in sandals and kimono, is directing the operations of the Tobiki Brewing...
...play in a losing Harvard season, especially in the last half of the debacle-like schedule, has been simply outstanding," the newspaper commented. "In his junior year, just as he was about to blossom into his full potential, he hit a series of injuries that slowed him up. This year he returned to his natural position in the 'T', and proceeded to make sports-experts around Boston lift their eyebrows," the paper added...
...born Gumm), longtime artisan of Tin Pan Alley, who wrote (1908) Take Me Out to the Ball Game (with Lyricist Jack Norworth), reputedly did not see a baseball game until 20 years later, also turned out Heart of My Heart, I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time and Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo; in Los Angeles...