Word: bum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Oct. 13 issue, p. 13, you refer to one "Bodenheimer" having been given the "bum's rush" in a hotel recently while President Hoover was there...
...yourselves and to the nation." President Hoover smiled. There was no Hoover-Coolidge hobnobbing. After the Legion speech he proceeded with traffic difficulty to the Hotel Statler where an adulant crowd hustled the President and Mrs. Hoover through the narrow lobby. In the turmoil four policemen gave the "bum's rush" to an officious fellow. He was O. L. Bodenheimer, National Commander of the Legion...
...Bronx, N. Y., when a man called on a woman to ask questions about her husband she retorted: "I haven't spoken to the big bum for 32 years and I'm damned if I'll speak to him now for your benefit...
...Note: The following is a verbatim record from a full page advertisement in the Cornell Sun. A picture of a unshaven, filthy, albeit jovial bum smiling over a glass of beer headed the page. A 180-bold "Prohibition" smacked the eye from the center of the advt...
...excitable Manhattan and Paris night club entertainer, went to Manhattan's Independent Artists exhibit (TIME, March 10) to see her portrait by Alfred H. Maurer. Indignant at the impressionistic rendition of her charms, she seized a knife from a bystander, slashed at the picture, screaming: "I'll show that bum. . . . That guy couldn't even paint a barn!" Said offended Artist Maurer: "I didn't let her see it. I told her I would surprise her with it. It seems that I did. What did a night club singer expect, a madonna?" Replied Miss Day: "I never looked that dopey...