Word: blossomer
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...royal custodian of the splendid quarries in the Isle of Portland, he supervised the selection and cutting of every block. This Portland stone "was to spring up in the rich variety of Wren's towers and steeples . . . As its greatest glory, the stone was to grow, to blossom, into St. Paul's." For that job, Wren never used a block "unless it had been exposed for at least three years...
...dialogue ranges from fifth to mawkish sentimentality. Walter Abel, as Captain Mike Dorgan, alternates between swallowing nobly and delivering impassioned speeches into a ship-to-shore phone, which scare the daylights out of his six WAVES. At length, however, his more elevated sentiments blossom forth, and he breaks into a rousing chorus of "For Those in Peril on the Sea." The less said of the rest of the acting the better...
...story called Green Thoughts, for instance, a flower fancier is devoured by his pet orchid and converted into a huge blossom in his own likeness. In his new shape, he is recognized by a resentful nephew, and efficiently hacked to pieces by the lout, who rather enjoys the flower's screams. In Thus I Refute Beelzy, a father refuses to believe his six-year-old son's story that he has a secret friend named Mr. Beelzy, who won't let anybody hurt him ("He said he'd come like a lion, with wings...
...years. To replace Kiki and his other Montparnasse models, he had called in the peasant girls from around his present-day home in Southern France. Their curves had the same healthy abundance, their flesh the same pearly hue. Interspersed among the show's buxom nudes were blossom-filled landscapes, luminous still lifes. These are strictly change of pace. "When I paint a nude," says Kisling, "I hunger to paint a landscape; when I paint a landscape, I hunger to paint a bunch of flowers." But he admits that his "grand passion" in life is "the women...
...romance. She loses $10,000 to Stephen McNally, owner of a gambling casino, who offers to swap her I.O.U. for a summer of tutoring for his little girl (Gigi Perreau). Linda reluctantly agrees, protesting so much that it takes no cinema connoisseur to see that her annoyance will soon blossom into love...