Word: bulles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latest reports from England have Babe Ruth progressing rapidly in John Bull's national game of cricket. The coach who has taken him in hand describes him as one of his most apt pupils and Lou Gehrig who returned this week said that when he left him the Babe "was knocking a cricket ball out of the grounds against the best bowling or pitching in England...
...greying hair and a small paunch. Constantly engaged in a verbal scrimmage with his dowdy wife, he eats bananas all day long, wears dirty golf clothes and is a sponger by habit. Mr. Baxley is known as "The Rajah" to his brother-in-law, Mr. Radfern (Edmund Gwenn). John Bull himself, Radfern has a face like the man in the moon, a way of smacking his lips over ham and cheese, an air of honest living. An established householder in Laburnum Grove, Shooters Green, a North London suburb, George Radfern seems as respectable a citizen as George V until...
...motion picture short entitled Throwing the Bull, containing this narrative sequence: "Now folks, meet Sidney Franklin, one of the greatest bull-throwers -I mean, bull-fighters-born under the sunny skies of Brooklyn...
...definition from Webster's New International Dictionary: "To throw the bull-to lie glibly; also, to talk fluently...
...PINKERTON FINDS A BODY-David Frome-Farrar & Rim hart ($2). Shy Welshman Pinkerton goes trustingly about Oxford; finds himself suspected of murder. Rescued by Yard's Inspector Bull, Pinkerton reveals the necessary clue...