Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bull's-Eye. In the South Pacific, a U.S. flyer landed after disregarding orders by flying through his own side's flak to shoot down two Jap bombers. When he explained, "I figured if they couldn't hit the Japs, they couldn't hit me," he was grounded for a month...
...Mexico City's bull ring last Sunday afternoon 24,000 men & women (a capacity crowd) paid $25,000 (boxoffice prices, not including scalpers' prices) to see three matadors risk their lives to kill six bulls artistically. As on every Sunday in recent weeks, some 2,000 U.S. citizens were in the crowd, confirming their Anglo-Saxon distaste or acquiring a new Latin love for bullfighting. For this is a big bullfighting season for gringos as well as mexicanos...
...Fine Points. Few of the U.S. citizens, except established residents in Mexico, understand the fine points of the spectacle. In the first scene the peones (matador's helpers) drag their capes before the newly entered bull and flee behind the barrier as he charges. Having studied the bull's style of charging, the matador plays him with a cape, with slow, graceful passes, finally "fixes" the bull -brings him up short with an abrupt pass which ends the scene...
...Fisher's Island on probationary status . . . Sounds fantastic, of course, but it's fannin' the breeze anyway . . . I didn't believe it myself . . . of course, though you can ask some of the guys in the first platoon; they started it . . . And, confidentially, I think that's a lot of bull about O'Connor slapping Hansen in the late squad at colors the other morning . . . That's ridick, kid . . . Also entirely unverified is the latest story on Fearless Fosdick . . . From this corner, it looks highly problematical that the boy with take over the Regimental Reins Genesis of the rumor is questionable...
Daphne Hellman, blonde, curvilinear socialite harpist, lost a New York Court of Appeals decision in her fight for custody of her three-year-old son. Winner: the husband she divorced in 1941, Henry Adsit Bull Jr., Town & Country's playful editor...