Word: blossomed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anent the regrettable misadventure of His Excellency Mahmoud Samy Pasha, Egyptian Minister to the U. S., at the Shenandoah Blossom Festival (TIME, May 14), without wishing to enter into the grammatical status of that "dark-complected" gentleman, may I not suggest that perhaps the "stupid race-blindness" of which you speak might have been displayed not by Mrs. Reynolds but by those warm persuaders of the Pasha who failed to realize that the Negro strain is as evident when promulgated through a line of princes and pashas as when through the humblest Senegambian dragged unwillingly into slavery, and that, unfortunately...
...Shenandoah Valley, where snow fell last fortnight, was bright last week with drifts of apple blossoms. Governor Harry Flood Byrd, himself a big cider, applesauce and vinegar producer, flew by blimp from Richmond to Winchester to crown the queen of the valley's blossom festival, Miss Mary Wise Boxley of Roanoke. It was a lyric occasion. Visitors waxed ecstatic over the scenery, the verdure, the marching schoolchildren. Newsgatherers tasted real Virginia applejack. None had a more gladsome time than his suave and swarthy excellency, Mahmoud Samy Pasha, Egyptian Minister to the U. S., who, with Mme. Samy, had been...
Here's Howe! When spring comes to Manhattan, the theatre season dies. Its swan song is heard, drifting slyly into the noisy streets, from playhouses wherein musical shows now blossom brightly in the dark. This one was written by famed Roger Wolfe Kahn who again displays his competence to write songs which, though they may be faintly derivative, are gay and engaging. The action is well cared for by Allen Kearns; he is required to represent a character whose name, as may be guessed, is an Indian greeting and who loses his love and gains her again with nonchalant...
Grace La Rue, Blossom Seeley, Evelyn Law, Bobby Watson, Grace Brinkley, dancing and singing, backed by a large and dexterous chorus...
...Reading Period would come in May, and in May Radcliffe would come again to Harvard. All was well; though reading assignment and thesis pluck at the heart of the courageous, yet even when the trial was hottest they would gain sweet respite. The Brattle Hall stage would blossom with lovely faces and form, and the Dramatic Club would ward off disaster even at that faltering midpoint of the Reading Period...