Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Balkanized and monetarily oriented Houses could come together long enough to look at the nearby grass of the Graduate Center, we feel sure that they could find gardening techniques to bring their wasteland to full bloom...
...very neon signs flush with youthful colors; the street's familiar smells of cheap popcorn and theatrical ham were overblown with a strangely innocent perfume. In the midst of the prosaic November which for decades has frozen the English-speaking stage, poetic roses were all at once in bloom...
...daughter, Vivie is naturally stiff-necked and stern in judgment; as a bad woman who has tried to be a good mother, Kitty Warren is naturally sentimental and defensive. Their personal relationship-beyond all considerations of economics or ethics-is irreconcilable. Few Broadway playwrights now in full bloom would be able or willing to write two such powerful scenes...
...advertise. Many writers (e.g., Bernard Shaw, William Saroyan) do much of the advertising themselves: each time their talents burst into flower they let off such chesty bugle notes of self-satisfaction that only the coldest, boldest critic dares to play deaf. But there are other good writers who bloom in silence, leaving it to the critics to sniff them out, though it may take years to place them in their proper niches...
...Here, There and Everywhere, a volume of essays on slang and cant, Author Partridge subscribes to the theory that English cant had its first big bloom in the Reformation, when dispossessed English priests joined up with thieves and highwaymen and taught them scraps of Latin. By 1630, "Thieves' Latin" had all but passed away, to be replaced by the cant which fathered U.S. gangster and hobo language-a rich mulligan of native ingredients peppered lightly with foreign words, e.g., booze from the Middle Dutch bus en (to tipple), stir from the gypsy stariben (a prison...