Word: blossomer
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...announced that patent No. 2,540,144 had been granted to Engineer-Inventor Emery Stern for a device which will "automatically release" various scents from containers built into TV sets. Set off by electrical impulses, the odors are intended to be appropriate to the type of program, e.g., peach blossom for romance...
...Yellow Book was a queer literary blossom of the not-so-Naughty Nineties. Stuffy contemporaries thought it a stinkweed, but today it seems more like a pressed rose-flat and sere. A British quarterly launched by Critic Henry Harland and Draftsman Aubrey Beardsley, it ran from 1894 to 1897, published the trial flights of half a dozen future soarers...
...turn gay and uncontrollably depressed (a brother and daughter went insane). He feared the dark, was mortally afraid of ghosts and shifted from uneasy lack of confidence to unattractive smugness. "Upon my soul," he wrote of himself, "not a bad specimen of a man ... I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind. But I am much afraid that this blossom will never swell into fruit...
...April: Blossom, my two-year-old cow went...
...June: Blossom had a calf, and I haven't decided what to name it. I exhibited at the spring Jersey show and didn't do too well...