Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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June Ally son, pregnant and playing bull-fiddle in a war-shot orchestra led by Jose Iturbi, hasn't heard from her husband in the South Pacific for months. The other girlish in the orchestra (that old backstage rut) intercept a telegram from the War department and fake a letter from the husband to the mother-to-be. It's all a bit irreverent...
Worse than Burma. The Cagayan Valley drive was the culmination of fighting in terrain so cruel that General Joseph W. Stilwell said it was worse than Burma. Major General Innis P. ("Bull") Swift, corps commander, had sent his divisions driving through backbreaking country that was all gorges and razor-backed ridges and mountain peaks that prodded the clouds. One division had advanced only 1,000 yards in four weeks, lost and retook one hill four times. The world may never have seen steeper fighting...
...Brunswick. He became Speaker of the New Brunswick legislature in 1936. According to Canadian parliamentary procedure, a Speaker cannot make a speech. So he seethed in silence for three years, then resigned and made one of the most startling speeches ever made to a provincial house. In a bull voice he roared his personal view of his own party, the opposition, the people, even the weather. Gist: they were all awful. When World War II came along, he went overseas as a major. In Ottawa last week, officials who should know were betting that he would wind up in Prime...
...Mangan telephoned the library, was connected: 1) with the chef of the library canteen, who admitted a change of cats but was not sure of the new cat's sex; 2) with the lady manager of the canteen, who refused to become embroiled in politics; 3) with a bull-voiced man who, apparently jealous of the library's dignity, denied that it maintained a cat of any sex. But L'Epoque stuck to its guns, insisted that the cat was a regular government fonctionnaire and that its upkeep allowance was 30 francs (60?) a year...
...night woods, he runs afoul of the local Jukes family, whose name is Fleagle. While he twitches around among cattle skulls in the uninviting Fleagle living room, and snags his hand in the twanging spring of a devastated sofa, Mamie Fleagle Johnson (Marjorie Main) assassinates flies with a bull whip, and her third husband, a mad scientist (Porter Hall), suggests that perhaps he'd better knock together another coffin...