Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burgeois Germany has crumpled before Grosz's terrible pencil, his contemptuous and exact eye. Frequent victims are bull-necked burghers, drunken women with raddled skin and pendulous breasts, fops with snub noses and muskrat mouths, gaunt marble-jawed soldiers, starving children, slatternmouthed old shrews. All are made contemptible, rarely laughable. The pictures look like a child's scrawls, full of scratchy, distracting detail. But critics perceive the basis of sound craftsmanship, understand Grosz's potent European influence. Knowing that satirists usually resemble their favorite object of satire, pupils at the Art Students' League were wondering which...
...excellent account of the Harding scandals, which were revealed over such a long period that they are always vague. Then the Coolidge Prosperity Bandwagon gets rolling and sweeps all before its high pressure salesmanship and concentrated ballyton. The Florida boom is used as a preface to the Big Bull Market and its child the Crash, which is treated well, simply and understandably. The arrival of the new morality, along with its unwanted offspring the confession, magazines, tabloids, etc., is traced, and alcohol and Al receive their due share of space. The steady jeering of Mencken, Lewis, and the highbrows...
...solid, squatty Irishman with a red face and a bull neck, John Joseph McGraw looks very much like what he was until last week-manager of one of the most famous baseball teams in history, the New York Giants. He has a sharp way of squinting his hard blue eyes, as though he were looking into the sun, a gruff, arrogant way of speaking. There was only a touch of his hardness, his arrogance in a typewritten message which Manager McGraw last week gave out to the Press in the grimy club offices of the Giants above Manhattan...
...looting of Peking in the Boxer Rebellion, wrote the first eye-witness report of Japan's victory over Russia at the Yalu, was caught in Berlin when the U. S. entered the War. An able political observer, Correspondent Davis was publicity director of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose campaign...
...question, said he could not see "where we are drifting." Witness Raskob said he could not see either. But he explained "for personal reasons ... for income tax purposes to establish a profit or loss." Though readily admitting participation in the Radio pool (TIME, May 30), and a few other bull operations, he emphatically denied any part in General Motors syndicates...