Word: blossoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Werewolf of London (Universal). Cinemaddicts who reacted properly to Mark of the Vampire (TIME, May 6) are likely to be even more perturbed by this ugly blossom from the spring's crop of horror pictures. Werewolves are not as eerie as vampires but they are faster, more ferocious and make uglier noises. A sprig of bat-thorn, as seasoned cinemaddicts are well aware, will keep a vampire outdoors. For werewolves, bat-thorn is as innocuous as the parsley on a mashed potato and the only flower that has any effect at all is the "mariphasa," which blooms by moonlight...
...mariphasa, he turns into a wolfish Mr. Hyde, does his best to strangle his handsome and devoted wife (Valerie Hobson). These habits do not seriously endanger his career until another werewolf (Warner Oland) who has run out of mariphasa flowers tries to steal Dr. Glendon's last blossom. The result is a fight between the two and the liveliest sequence in the picture when Dr. Glendon is shot by a pistol bullet while chasing his wife about their house in an effort to bite her to death with teeth two inches long...
...Thomas Jefferson left in me," said he. "to insist that . . . no Federal official shall invade or ignore the Constitutional rights of the individual citizen." Last week light-hearted Virginians crowned Miss Nella Veverka, daughter of the Czechoslovakian Minister to the U. S., queen of the Shenandoah Valley apple blossom festival, and light-hearted Tennesseans made ready for Memphis' annual Cotton Carnival with William Nedy Mallory (All America football captain of Yale,1924) as King. But Congressmen were less lighthearted. They could see in their minds' eyes Harry Byrd handing them a ballot reading...
...letter to "Our brothers and sisters in Japan" deploring the Navy's action and asking them to "unite with us in redoubling our efforts to maintain our historic friendship." The Fellowship of Reconciliation dedicated May 3 to 5 to "Peace Maneuvers," one aspect of which was a "cherry blossom procession" of Chicago churchmen and pacifists to the Japanese consulate...
Princeton's captain, Alex McWilliams, will be handicapped in his assault on his own record in the pole vault by two game knees which have bothered him all season, and by the fact that Emile Dubiel may blossom forth with one of the high vaults which he has been making in practice...