Word: bummed
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...full. Its greatest danger, however, is that it is likely to lead the unwary reader into taking a trip he cannot afford-and leave him strapped and stranded when his money doesn't stretch as far as Frommer said it would. Says one disillusioned follower: "Europe on Five Bum Steers...
...challenger should go off at 80-to-1, but even the gambling establishment has a trace of patriotism. Chuvalo is a bum, and won the title shot only after World Boxing Association champion Ernie Terrell backed out of his bout with All three weeks...
...bum transcends his gutter, recalling ancient nights. A fat little lady on the subway, purse and packages piled in her lap, eyes shut like a kitten, is holy in her thoughts...
...chief sleepwalker is a distinguished barrister (Ray Milland), in the dock on a murder rap for killing a judge. Milland had threatened to kill the man responsible for the hit-and-run death of his daughter, and the judge was a bum driver-certainly enough circumstantial evidence to suit anybody. After a lifetime of scrutinizing the criminal mind, Milland is such a right honorable chump that he harbors on his own staff an ex-con who spent 15 years preparing the frame-up to revenge himself on both judge and barrister. Enough clues turn up at the Old Bailey...
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...