Word: blossoming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...senator had the idea that it was something like the whisky made by bootleggers another that it was made of some kind of bean, and a third that it was an essence of sunflower seed; investigation, however, decided that it comes from a certain part of a cactus blossom, which grows somewhere along the Rio Grande. Its effects were clearly explained by the recorded statement of an Omaha: "After eating thirty-six peyote I got just like drunk, only more so, and more good than when I drink whisky." Another senator had heard that "the effect was to bring about...
...course we cannot expect the G. O. P. to blossom out suddenly with a model political organization; but undoubtedly the unexpected showing of strength on the part of the progressive element will be a lesson to those Republican leaders who are blind to signs of the times. Politicians are not hesitating to comment and have expressed many enlightening ideas. "The results in Pennsylvania indicate a political revolution", announces Senator Borah; and W. Harry Baker, Secretary of the Republican State Committee, exclaims: It was the women...
...money than knowledge take refuge in the intellectual sanctuaries about the Square, there to remain except for recurrent dashes to the Waldorf--until the period of the Great Plague is over. There that exotic bloom known as a college education can be cultivated "under glass", and many a fragile blossom preserved which, in the open, would never survive the rigors of our northern elimate. And are they not held--like "hot-house" grapes--to be the more valuable because so tenderly and expensively reared...