Word: blossomed
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...pretty girl, but no beauty: the quality that makes critics and plainer-spoken men yearn over her is charm-a charm to whose single-minded cultivation she has devoted her whole, determined young life. One critic has compared this quality to "the wistful beauty of a lonely blossom of wood sorrel." Of her Juliet, another wrote that she gives "a sweet new agony to the supreme love-drama in the English language." A third tried to describe her as having "the air of being untouched by human hands. She has, quite instinctively, an uncrushable air of absolute innocence...
...worst confused plant of the Bible is probably the rose. The flower mentioned in Isaiah 35:1 ("and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose") must have been a bulbous plant, probably a narcissus; the original Hebrew word for it means "bulb." Other "roses" were oleanders, anemones, tumbleweeds or crocuses. The biblical "Rose of Sharon" was not the modern rose of Sharon (a kind of hibiscus introduced from China), but probably a tulip...
This represents a flirtation with the new isolationism that could easily blossom into romance. Glowing words of praise from GOP super-nationalist Clare Hoffman appear in Kennedy's campaign handouts. The Chicago Tribune and even Basil Brewer, New Bedford's naevus, have endorsed him. John F. Kennedy might be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but he has contributed little while in Congress and raises the unsettling possibility of Democratic isolationism...
Somebody Loves Me (Paramount) is a humdrum musical that strings 20 songs, including Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, On San Francisco Bay and Wang Wang Blues, on a story line "suggested" by the show-business careers of Husband & Wife Team Benny Fields and Blossom Seeley. According to the picture, popular Songstress Blossom (Betty Hutton) marries unknown Vaudevillian Benny (Ralph Meeker). But Benny resents being "Mr. Blossom Seeley," and insists on making good on his own before he does a duet with Blossom. With his wife's help, he finally makes the grade in the big time, and they...
...Brooklyn Blossom. It meant the end of the minors for Eddie and Dickie, but not the end of Stanky's spring-legged struggle for recognition. He was sold to the Chicago Cubs in 1943 and was beaned in his first game. It was the third time Stanky had stopped a fast ball with his head. The first time was the worst: he got a fractured skull, and the hearing in his left ear was so impaired that he was rejected for military service. Even in that war year with the Cubs, he hit only a lackluster .245. The next...