Word: blossomed
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...just plain nice and not a bit like the boys back home," decided Missouri's blonde, well-curved "Mimi" Medart, 16, after meeting Egypt's rolypoly King Farouk. Mimi, daughter of onetime Cinemactress Donal Blossom and St. Louis Restaurateur William Medart, first caught the monarch's roving eye in the casino at Deauville. Next day, the two had a chat on the beach, which Farouk followed with a kingly bouquet of flowers. Asked by reporters if she would like to marry royalty, Mimi burbled, "Sure, if I loved him. Aren't Rita and Aly Khan happy...
...interior of the ship had been almost completely rebuilt. Passenger capacity had been cut from 2,200 to 1.513 to provide larger cabins and airy, well-lighted public rooms. Among the new features: a blossom-stuffed conservatory, a mural-lined children's dining-room, a small music salon where traveling musicians can practice. In the hold, to dine & wine the passengers on the six-day crossing, were eight tons of prime beef, 60,000 eggs, 5,000 bottles of champagne...
...himself had been short of breath and unable to walk against the wind. After he got the spike, he said, he walked against the wind fine. Another witness testified that a Magic Spike not only cured his arthritis but also made his wife's violets blossom three times better than normal. Another man simply told the jury that a Magic Spike had improved his wife's disposition...
...vegetables for her kitchen, the results were sparkling. He had the knack of putting flowers into many-faceted, highly polished pictures without seeming to disarrange their leaves and petals. The driest of artists, he knew how to keep the bloom on a peach or the dew on a blossom. His talent had never been robust; the fact that his best works were evocations of things so elusive and so close to perfection as flowers was a measure of its fineness...
...film-makers were wise in keeping almost all the play's lines, as well as the story, intact. Lachie, who is convincingly and warmly played by Richard Todd, enters the hospital without knowing exactly what is wrong with him. The men in his ward--Digger, Kiwi, Tommy, Yank, and Blossom, the Basuto--all know he is doomed, and do their best to make things easy...