Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reportedly) worked on his memoirs like any good, grey 19th Century British empire-builder. Churchill was still the world's greatest orator,* but a statesman's words, unlike a poet's, need power to give them weight; Churchill, testy and grim, was not in power. Bull-necked Ernest Bevin had rushed into 1946 snorting to U.N. and to the world a great commoner's bold concept of democracy. But Bevin was sick, and he, too, as the year went on, was content to see the bold words fly where the real power was. Bernard M. Baruch...
...summer he saw the savage boredom of village life in Brunete on the baked plain, where young men crucified bats whose wings tore as easily as old rags. He saw a starved boy in the ragged tinsel of a matador waiting, with the face of a mystic, for a bull's charge in a drunkenly howling village square...
Absent Treatment. For its past 21 years, Town & Country has been unobtrusively owned by William Randolph Hearst. Slight, worldly-wise Editor Harry Bull, like Hearst, went to St. Paul's School and Harvard, won fame of a sort in 1924 when he bested the then Prince of Wales in a pillow-fight aboard the Berengaria, returning from Europe. He worked briefly for TIME, moved to Town & Country from the late International Studio in 1931, became editor in 1935. Owner Hearst has never darkened Bull's editorial door, or given Town & Country's small staff of 13 anything...
...snob appeal, T. & C. once carried a double-truck "social calendar" and a nightclub column; but by the time Bull tossed them out the magazine had somewhat outgrown its adoration of Society. During the war, deprived of travel news and automotive ads, it took refuge in fashions ; now it is broadening its base to run more of its famous literary letters from abroad, more sports, more art. (This year it has doubled its 25,000 circulation.) Its theater critic: Harry Bull, only editor member of Manhattan's Drama Critics Circle...
...Oliver St. John Gogarty, is now alone in the once-crowded field that held Vanity Fair, Spur, Horse & Horsemen, Country Life and the Sportsman. It has survived by getting under Hearst's wing, and by getting back on the old Home Journal beam. "We found out," says Harry Bull, "that sportsmen can't read...