Word: bum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pigeons and People (by George Michael Cohan, producer), subtitled "a comic state of mind in continuous action," runs in one long act like Philip Barry's Hotel Universe. A benevolent insurance tycoon comes back to his apartment trailed by an elderly, jaunty bum named Parker (Actor...
Although he left his job to play tennis abroad this year, no one has yet accused Vines of being a ''tennis bum''?i.e.. an amateur who makes a living at the game. The need for making a delicate distinction between players who are "bums" and players who are not, arose again last week in a dispute between officials of and 14 entrants in the Seabright, N. J., invitation tournament. Like most clubs which hold invitation tennis tournaments, Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club offers to house and feed competitors. In the old days, before tennis became overrun with characters...
...years every time that one of Willard's comic strip characters referred to Moon Mullins as a "banjo-eyed bum," I have agreed with them that that is just what Mr. Mullins is. But I could never figure it out. Your issue of May 23 says, inter alia, "banjo-eyed Norman Klein." Do Klein's eyes look like banjos, or does Mr. Klein look like Moon Mullins? And another thing, that expression is the only one that angers our Mr. Mullins; a sort of "when you say that, smile" business. Are you not taking considerable chances that...
...hoboes, scanning papers on park benches, long to be in England now that Labor is in power. Published a fortnight ago was a report of the British Ministry of Health suggesting a long list of improvements to make life more pleasant for the British Bum...
Three other championships were decided before Wimbledon Week (which | lasts a fortnight) was over. George Lott Jr., who last year declined to be a "tennis bum" but still tours the world playing tennis, and John Van Ryn, who jumps around the court as though his legs were pogo-sticks, won the doubles championship in a long match against Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon ? 6-2, 10-8, 9-11, 3-6, 6-3. Two British women, Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron and Phyllis Mudford, be came women's doubles champions. Mixed doubles champions were George Lott...