Word: blossoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comedian Frank Tinney: "He fertilizes the most sterile wheeze with the persuasive manures of his unctuous manner, and makes it blossom with laughter unabashed...
...used to chanting, "The line is busy," that they frequently sang it out before callers got a chance to say a word. The capital's swamped switchboards were an indication of what was inundating Washington: a flood of people and business. Last week, with Easter holidays, the Cherry Blossom Festival, and the Daughters of the American Revolution rustling into Washington for their annual counterrevolution, the flood burst all bounds...
...vernal equinox, whether it wants to or not, spring comes to the District of Columbia. On that day, each year, shivering photographers, muffled to the cheekbones, escort a beauteous damsel to the Tidal Basin and tell her to go climb a tree. Usually the Cherry Blossom Queen, posing as regally as possible while sitting on a knobby tree branch, gets runs in her stockings, barked knuckles and a ruffled temper...
Almost as infallible as the perennial crocus, "Blossom Time" has bloomed again. And the Shuberts' latest edition of this old dependable lacks little of the sure-fire appeal with which it has warmed up staid Bostonians seven times in the last twenty years. The colorful costumes, glittering jewelry, chic frock coats and top hats, tinkling wine glasses and gay laughter are all there--set to melodies the world hasn't forgotten in 120 years, and isn't likely to in another thousand...
...beery buffoonery as largely irrelevant pleasantry. The only strict demand to be made is for good singing, and Everett Marshall, Frank Hornaday, Marie Nash and Martha Errolle give Schubert a very fair treatment. If you like light operetta, and it's a dreadful boor who doesn't "Blossom Time" is among the best...