Word: bummed
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...bum steer among the day's warm welcomes was recorded. A New York Harvard man, sitting in his officer near Grand Central Station, heard a brass band blaring forth Harvard airs outside his window. He hurried down to the station to join in what he thought was a welcoming demonstration and found that the band was representing the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Why they were playing Harvard songs was not revealed...
...names of 3,500 faithful Wiley worshipers, all good members of the Protective League. When a new sponsor approaches him with a product, Wiley turns it over to 50 of his housewives for testing. They have rejected about half of the products thus offered, have never given him a bum steer. Asked to spiel for a quick-drying floor wax, he tried it on his own floors, reported candidly over the air next day: "This is a good wax, and it's as good as any wax, I suppose. It says on the can it will...
Sportswriters liked little Joe Jacobs. He was generous, gregarious, made good copy. They liked the taunts he put into beer-bibbing Tony Galento's mouth: "I'll murder dat bum" (Joe Louis). They echoed his casual remarks until they became part of Broadway's vernacular: "We wuz robbed" (when Schmeling lost to Sharkey in their second fight for the heavyweight title); "I shoulda stood in bed" (when he found himself among the shivering spectators at a World Series game one frosty day in Detroit...
...Obstacle. Latin America, in previous U. S. experience, is a bum risk. Haunting the U. S. money markets are 155 defaulted bond issues of (or guaranteed by) 16 Latin American Republics. They represent 77.1% of the $1,600,530,070 (178 issues) floated by Latin America during the heyday of gold-plated foreign bondjobbing. After seven years of Good Neighbor talk, some of these cats & dogs are still selling for one and two cents on the dollar. This debris of the last spree is the first fact to be explained away by all advocates of new credits...
...Yale at 20. Bored there. Became a Bowery bum. Lived a while with a hophead and his wife. Recalled to New Haven where his mother, dying, toasted in champagne her sons, her "wonderful life," smashed the glass...