Word: blossomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jebbar Subbagh in a blossom-strewn ceremony at the First Methodist Church in Palo Alto. In time a baby son was born, and the local minister christened him Paul. Except for the homesickness in Abdul's heart, all might have been well, but at last (in Helen's words), "Nothing would do but we had to go and visit his mother in Baghdad...
...between 1915 and 1923 with the inspirational magic of success stories. In its time, American was the first to run Kipling's If and Edna Ferber's short stories, ranged in contributors from Skeptic H. L. Mencken to Booster Bruce Barton. When Editor Sumner Blossom took over in 1929, he announced, "Horatio Alger doesn't work here any more," and American turned itself into a family magazine. It went on thriving for years...
...subscriber does not like what he gets, he may request the other magazine or−only as a last resort, the company hopes−ask for his money back. Most of American's editorial features will be split up between the two magazines. Its longtime Editor Blossom, 64, becomes a Crowell-Collier vice president assigned to editorial planning, and the company will try to absorb 50 of American's 65 editorial and advertising employees...
Chances for professional opera singers in the U.S. may be slim (see above), but for students in springtime they blossom like daffodils. Last week three U.S. schools offered five modern operas, composed by faculty members and a graduate student and staged by the schools' opera workshops. All of them were in a conservative idiom, ranging in style from Gilbert & Sullivan to Menotti. The five...
...basic personality; it is merely one way to break down certain kinds of emotional barriers. "In many cases," adds one Paris expert, "freeing children from the restrictions imposed by the fact of having to write can contribute to emancipating them from deeper problems and help their personalities to blossom...