Word: bum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clementine, who came to Manhattan (N.Y.) from a farm near Manhattan (Kans.), still gets up at 5 a.m. to do her chores. For offbeat stories she roams the Fulton Street market, "reviews" restaurants once a week for New Yorkers, rarely gives them a bum steer. Says Clem: "I hate to eat in restaurants...
...many of the people who were speaking most venomously about Truman were Roosevelt-loving left-wingers. This was cheerfully pointed out by the Chicago Tribune's famed Cartoonist Joseph L. Parrish Jr., who made "Party Radical" the biggest bum in his picture...
...Producer Todd's great friend Toots Shor, whose Manhattan restaurant is the sports world's second home. Toots's tribute: "it's real cops-&-robbers stuff, with class." And during the intermission, according to Columnist Earl Wilson, Toots remarked: "I'm the only bum in the audience that's going back in just to see how it comes...
...matter what else was said about Brooklyn's flat-nosed, puffy-lipped "Bum-my" Davis, no man could deny that he would fight anything on two feet...
...gotten a watch or a coat, maybe braces for her teeth with a bit of money spent so lavishly and foolishly. . . . While we skimp and save and do without so much that could make us happy. I am a private in the Army . . . draw monthly $36. ... I'll bum cigarets when I am broke, but I'll never admire or respect these people who throw thousands of dollars away to show off their kids. . . . Maybe some day I'll have a fur coat and a swell watch, nice home and family-but damn I'll work...