Word: blossomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chance to Blossom. As a Congressman, Lyndon Johnson went pretty much down the line for the New Deal. He ran for the Senate in 1941 against W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel-and got counted out by a highly suspicious 1,311 votes. He ran again in 1948, this time against former Governor Coke Stevenson-and got counted in by an equally suspicious 87 votes. During his first Senate days he was invited to a Southern caucus by the man who today stands as his most powerful backer: Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell. There was an argument over...
...days and commencement, but the Oxford don swathes himself in proper hues for every day, is well aware when he is within nodding distance of such colleagues in full dress as a doctor of philosophy (scarlet and navy blue) or a doctor of music (cream silk with apple-blossom embroidery and sleeves of cherry crimson...
...characters no longer walk in mincing steps, or tuck their hands in their sleeves, movements characteristic of China rather than Japan. The fireflies that spangled the night sky during the love duet in Act I have been abandoned (there are no fireflies during the cherry-blossom season) ; though Puccini's gonglike orchestral effects are kept, the onstage gong that signaled the wedding is out (gongs are sounded at Japanese funerals). Cio-Cio-San no longer punches holes in the shoji (paper screen) walls of the house to watch for Pinkerton's return-for the good reason that...
...donations), read some "rather grim" Ransom works to the audience of 750, then sat back to enjoy an auction of books and literary curios. Most curious curio, one of a batch of letters sent over the years to various magazine editors: a terse note from Calvin Coolidge to Sumner Blossom, onetime editor of American Magazine. Wrote Cautious Cal: "I have not written anything on the subject to which you refer and do not expect to write anything on it. In giving you this information I am trusting that you will not make any improper...
Last week the stones began to blossom again. Stassen said: "It is too soon to make any announcements for 1958," and then denied that that was a denial. Evidently he can hear political calls too high-pitched for human ears. Washington and Pennsylvania politicians believe that Stassen is ready to run, but there was no sign anyone wanted...