Word: burgeon
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Vanities of 1923. Earl Carroll has unveiled a first-rate second-class vaudeville show. With a single exception his notables are picked from the infinite rows of orchids, yams, and parsnips which burgeon beneath the glass frames of Mr. B. F. Keith. Inadvertently Mr. Carroll picked mostly yams and parsnips. Careful buttering of the latter with scenery and sirens rendered them barely palatable. Yet yams are yams. And yam actors should not be liberated on a stage facing 1,000 people who have paid $11.00 for the exercises...
...When Burgeon's captured British army was being sent back to England an attempt was made to quarter its officers in Massachusetts Hall. The College and the province had a heated controversy, and finally compromised by allowing the officers to be quartered in Apthorp House, which still stands...