Word: bum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corned Beef & Roses. All through World War 1 he stayed close to Baruch and learned a thing or two about finances and investing. But in 1918, he quit his job to go "on the bum, mostly because I wanted to find a way to the top." He found it six months later when he met some songwriters in a New York delicatessen. After the patrician manners of Baruch, the tunesmiths looked to him "like a bunch of dumbheads"-until he learned that some of the heads were creating $50,000 worth of songs a year. Again Billy got the jump...
...about the boast and went looking for Legs. "I understand you've been looking for me," growled Johnny as some of Legs's backup men started drifting away. "Ah, hell, Johnny, can't you take a joke?" asked a worried Legs. "Not from you, y'bum," replied Broderick as his left hook mashed Diamond into unconsciousness...
...successful a strike can be, may have set a new pattern of relations with the TWU which will make a biennial strike a foregone conclusion. Unless the new Mayor learns how to make those nasty political deals pretty damn quick the City Council should get together and throw the bum out. Louis D. Beer...
...clubs of Tokyo's six sakaba (drinking quarters). Wispy-bearded Santa Clauses, a legacy of the American occupation, parade in sandwich boards that proclaim the virtues (or lack of them) of such establishments as Le Rat Mort and the Eyebrow Club, Romance Town and the Club Bum Bum Room. Finally come the customers-Japanese businessmen and executives, laden with yen and the ghosts of bonenkai past...
...suit his publisher, Mrs. Ogden Reid, who insisted that he give more space to women's golf. Woodward refused. He was, said his friend Joe Palmer, "contemptuous of superiors, barely tolerant of equals and unfailingly kind to subordinates." In 1948 he was fired. "I was given the bum's rush," he explained, "for addressing the management in tones of insufficient servility...