Word: bulles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacation plans are emerging from the bull-session stage into definite arrangements, opportunities for summer jobs are pouring into Phillips Brooks House, it was announced yesterday by Ray Dennett '36, graduate secretary...
...this was a good story, but the facts, as they belatedly emerged, left it nothing but a cock-and-bull story-except for the tremendous fact that the Chancellor of Austria and the Chancellor of Germany did secretly meet and negotiated a most vital accord which they further agreed to rush into action with the greatest haste, before Adolf Hitler was due to address the Reichstag. Dr. Schuschnigg is one of Europe's hardest, smartest, most devoutly pious and most able statesmen. So far from the Nazis having been such fools as to try to crack him by third...
...September 11, 1936, a boyish-looking ex-lightweight champion of Harvard named Munro Leaf published a 64-page children's book called Ferdinand. It was the tale of a Spanish bull that refused to fight, and Author Leaf had written it in one afternoon. Ferdinand sold only 13,736 copies the first year. Then it really began to go. By last week it had sold 90,000 copies; Author Leaf and Illustrator Robert Lawson had made about $10,000 in royalties ; Walt Disney had purchased Ferdinand for a Silly Symphony; letters were pouring in accusing Ferdinand of Red, Fascist...
When Ernest Hemingway created his monosyllabic prize fighters, gangsters, bull fighters, he gave U. S. writers a powerful insight into the workings of the minds of criminals, fighting men and tough characters in general. Imitators who borrowed his peculiar style soon burned themselves out, but the full impact of Hemingway's major achievement is just beginning to make itself felt in U. S. fiction. Last week a young Arizona novelist showed what happens when the legendary heroes of the Old West-men of the cast of Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday-are examined with an understanding gained from Hemingway...
...have disappeared in England, or 3) have changed their meaning since emigration from England. Listed in Part III are such everyday words as build (in the sense of "construct"), which was only in literary use in England before it became common coin in the U. S.; bull, bimch, bumper, burial ground, bum, bunkum, boss, bluff (derived from the game of poker), business (meaning an occupation or industry...