Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aides and has a lordly way of refusing to see foreign ambassadors in person. Madrid gossips have long whispered that Franco dreams of founding a dynasty of his own. He might, they murmur, marry off his young daughter, Carmencita, to the Duke of Veragua, scion of a famous bull-raising family and descendant of Christopher Columbus...
Thousands Cheer (M.G.M.) is not to be confused with the crisp, memorable As Thousands Cheer which Irving Berlin and Moss Hart brought to Broadway a decade ago. M.G.M. reportedly paid $25,000 for that show and its bull's-eye title back in 1935, but has taken its own aim from there on. The MGMarksmen ring no resounding bell, but they do bag 1) an average musical wartime romance (Private Gene Kelly v. Colonel's-Daughter Kathryn Grayson), 2) a brisk, hefty variety show featuring a clutch of M.G.M. stars and three bands (Kay Kyser, Bob Crosby, Benny...
...Princeton ('31), there art-edited the Princeton Tiger. He sold his first drawings to Judge, College Humor and the old Life. After college he studied at Manhattan's famed Art Students League under Thomas Hart Benton. Says Darrow of this training: "He taught me how to roll Bull Durham cigarets." Darrow's first New Yorker appearance was a study of two girl nudists admiring a male fellow nudist: "Last night I saw him in a blue serge suit. Zowie...
Besides miniature bananas, palm trees and pedigreed dogs, Ben has also trimmed hats with models of penguins, reindeer, Ferdinand the Bull, Red Cross nurses, Chinese coolies with water jugs, and nude "Folies-Bergère" dancers. He is already planning for the 1944 elections: hats trimmed with elephants and donkeys. But his biggest innovation for the out-of-this-world hat business is his refusal to sell any hat exclusively...
...Centerville Bull," a coal-black animal with uncontrollable mating instincts, which roamed the streets "causing consternation as he smashed down fences and led cows away from their paths of rectitude. ... A Mrs. Sullivan, tiring of the depredations, decided to take matters into her own hands. She scored a bull's-eye, hitting the bull in a spot that measurably reduced his virility...