Word: bummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sand Castle. A gay and whimsical satire on sun worshipers and beach-bum muscle growers, centering on a little boy who builds a castle in the sand...
...years later by Millionaire Harry K. Thaw, who resented White's flirtation with Thaw's showgirl wife. In 1925 White's Garden was razed, and a new one erected across town from Madison Square on Eighth Avenue. Here, over the years, Joe Louis stiffened his "bum of the month," hockey players scuffled, the circus came indoors, 2,500 pedigreed dogs paraded each year for the Westminster Dog Show, and Billy Graham made mass conversions. Last week the Garden prepared to move again. Its current owner, the Graham-Paige Corp.,† announced plans for a new $75 million...
...Filming One, Two, Three, an East-West satire set in West Berlin and based on a comedy by the late Ferenc Molnar, Director Billy Wilder sent Horst Buchholz, who plays an East German motorcycle bum, past the Brandenburg Gate with a balloon on his exhaust pipe. It inflated, as the script ordered-displaying the words RUSSKI GO HOME. Out came a platoon of People's Police, plus a Russian official who was not amused. Retreating from the row that followed, Wilder moved to Munich, where he is finishing the film beside an enormous reproduction of the Brandenburg Gate...
During the two years' waiting, says Roy Torcaso, he has got three antagonistic phone calls-one calling him a "dirty Communist," another an "atheistic bum." the third insulting his wife. Overbalancing that, he says, he has received "tremendously overwhelming support" from all over the U.S. and Canada...
...clap politely, or boo or what. Now they know." They have yet to toss beer bottles (Schlitz is sold during games), but as the home team was getting trimmed (12-6) by the Boca Raton (Fla.) Royal Palms, when Captain Uihlein overrode the ball, one grandstand customer bellowed: "You bum! I don't care if this is your backyard! Why don't you take your bats and balls and go home...