Word: budding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Piece de resistance of this umpire, however, is his ability to nip trouble in the bud. Upon being asked what was the toughest time he ever had, he mentioned the Duke-Wake Forest game over a decade ago as being "the nearest to trouble...
Lowell smashed straight down the field in the final quarter on long gains by Mel Gordon and Joe Lyford, carrying the pigskin to the Eliot three, where Norn Blotner took it over on a line back, riding in on guard Bud Call's back...
People whose daily diet is strychnine retch at Cindy Lou's syrup. Her magnolia-bud ways with men make women who get their guys through manhole methods rage. Swiftly the whole house-party gangs up on her. Then Cindy Lou hits the roof, butts a fat columnist (John Alexander) in the belly, gives the crowd a 100-stripe tongue-lashing, spoils everybody's fun, cooks everybody's goose, flashes a revolver, and winds up with as much loot in Connecticut as Sherman's men got out of Georgia...
...letters, music, a copy of TIME'S 15th-anniversary issue (February 28) on microfilm. Three items chosen to show the "Futurian Man" typical prodigies of 20th-century music were: 1) Finlandia by Jean Sibelius; 2) The Stars & Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa; 3) Flat Foot Floogie by Bud Green, Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart...
Auspiciously inaugurating the new season, which officially begins this afternoon. Bud Talbot introduced Bert Haines as the first speaker. Haines was full of praise for the way the Henley Regatia was run this year. His only regret was the close race his 150-pound oarsmen lost to Kent in England. "Kent was too heavy for us in that strong headwind." he explained ruefully...