Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Hay once said wisely: "A treaty when it enters the Senate is like a bull entering the arena. Nobody knows what will immediately happen, but everybody knows that at last the corpse of the bull will be dragged from the arena...
...Allies to prevent Finland's fall was one sentimental reason that the Daladier Government fell sympathetically last week (see p. 20). In Great Britain, too, the Finnish post-mortem continued, but with a difference. On the strength of it the Chamberlain Government was described as "riding a bull market." Far from condemning what Britain had done and left undone for brave little Finland, from an unexpected source, the Labor benches in the House of Commons, M. P. Josiah Wedgwood rejoiced: "If it were not for the greatest piece of luck this country...
...ease in Zion," he tells his newsmen. But if an insomniac reporter beats him to the office, Editor Freeman is rather piqued than gratified. Sometimes he stomps through the city room and salutes his staff: "Good morning, Christian warriors! What the News Leader needs is more news and less bull...
...bars enroute, the newly paired comedy team of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope meets up with Dorothy Lamour. Miss Lamour (whose leggily revealing sarong turns out never to have been a sarong, but a sinjang) is earning her way with a gay little dance number in which she gets bull-whipped. Crooner Crosby, the lyric son of a businessman, has an irrepressible urge to be a beachcomber. He and Bob Hope take Miss Lamour beachcombing with them. Bing Crosby sings one song (Kaigoon) in Esperanto...
That famed sarong happens not to appear here, but Lamour's glamour neither gains nor loses. Nothing else is missing. The "South Sea" accent remembered about half the time, the scene with the villainous dancing partner and his bull-whip, the application to the great yellow moon sung heath the weeping willow tree--all are in the familiar pattern. The artificial eyelashes flutter and Miss Lamour reestablishes her position as a close second to the Lampoon's Sheridan in Hollywood's March of Crime...