Word: bummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Mazie Phillips, 72, angel of mercy to Manhattan's Bowery bums, a guttural-voiced platinum blonde who worked as a cashier in a Skid Row moviehouse and for 50 years comforted every bench warmer, panhandler and swillbelly with a quarter here, a nip there, believing that more organized forms of charity were doomed because "you ain't goin' to get a bum in a mission if there's a gutter to sleep in"; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
Running against Wallace as Lyndon Johnson's proxy in this week's Maryland presidential primary, Brewster called Wallace a "trespasser," a "stumble-bum," and "a dangerous joke." And as for bringing on trouble Wallace's name might as well have been Joe Btfsplk...
...pretty certainly rack up. They can tell whether they have pulled it off from the moment they finish writing. When a student Scoffs and succeeds, like Hud, the A's are flourished as proof of his innate superiority; when a student Scoffs and fails, he becomes the town bum...
...home--this time going over the Weeks Bridge instead of through it--we considered how remarkable it is that so few members of the Harvard community know anything at all about the more than three miles of tunnels underneath them. A garrulous old bum who used to spend the nights around Leverett House told an undergraduate last year that he often slept inside the Weeks Bridge where "it's warm and quiet." It seems odd that a bum and a Nazi spy should be more familiar with the Tunnel than most undergraduates, especially since the existence of the underground passages...
...David Ogilvy did not find advertising columnists so odious in his recent book, Confessions of an Advertising Man, as he did in your article-"They are a perfect total pain in the bum . . ." [April...