Word: bummed
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Writers are crisply advised to avoid cliches and never, never to use such tired words as "shambles" (a "scene of slaughter, not merely a wrecked place") or "hike" for a wage or price increase ("A hike is a tramp and a tramp is a bum and bum is the word for hike"). They are also warned against words that may trip up printers, e.g., towhead. Thus, one story in the Times said: "To bright, two-headed youngsters . . ." Wrote Bernstein: "Use 'blond,' 'flaxen-haired'-anything...
...very good," he says in his professional goulash-English. So last Christmas he announced that he would make his first public appearance as a crooner on his wrestling show. But on the big night he wrestled first-and "this bum gets me in a hammerlock, and he breaks my thumb. I was in such pain that I couldn't sing...
...airplane and into a romance, he rushes an innocent woman to a maternity hospital, and he intimidates every child who comes under his bloodshot eye. The excuse for it all is a bone of a plot which casts him as that improbable character, W. C. Fields. A beery, sneering bum with a face like a malignant baby, Fields pauses only long enough to allow his protege, perennial-adolescent Gloria Jean, to catch up with him. There is no pretence of continuity--the film is Fields and it is funny...
...life, except that it gave him considerably more money ($20,000 instead of the $9,000 that production test pilots make). When not busy at Muroc, or studying the mathematics, aerodynamics and other subjects that modern test pilots need, Bill is what Californians approvingly call a "beach bum." He lives in a small, pleasant shack squeezed between the Pacific Coast Highway and the rocky shore two miles north of Monica. He swims, water-skis, sails, chases fish underwater with a spear, dives for spiny lobsters in the kelp beds, pries abalones off rocks. In quiet moments he sits...
...another. In the same way, he has never publicly nominated his successor, and one of the severest criticisms of this proud old man is that he has let no one else around him gain power or prominence. In the election last August, Rhee named 52-year-old Lee Bum Suk to run as Vice President, but suddenly dropped this tough, whisky-drinking ex-Chinese Nationalist general from his ticket, when Lee seemed to be developing a popularity of his own. Syngman Rhee substituted an 83-year-old crony...