Word: bumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resulting story set Mrs. Stertz -and Chicago - on its ear. Hurriedly, Land lady Stertz dragged Betty's bed out of the tent, punched a Her aid-American photographer in the nose, set her brother to giving other newsmen the bum's rush. Fire Department and Health Department officials arrived. So, belatedly, did the embarrassed OPA. Cried Mrs. Stertz: "My base ment is the showplace of Chicago." Betty became a newspaper heroine. The Allied Florists Association sent her flowers, and 25 people offered her better places to stay. But Betty, who had her bed back, decided to stick...
...bum before he got into the service, He was a bum when all is said and done. He would beat his ma and dad For suggesting it was bad To be a burglar on Sunday...
...midle-aged Brookline man, however, who-contributed the most philosophical remark. "I'd just as soon get pushed, " he said, "against a Harvard man as any other bum...
Plain Talk. In Tampa, a student found a straight question on a school form ("Father's Occupation?"), gave it a straight answer ("Bum...
...Miss Hayworth's business to portray a woman as bad as she is beautiful. On the rebound from a young bum (Glenn Ford) she marries an elegant bounder (George Macready), who falls desperately in love with her. She then spends a large part of the picture acting as much like a nympholept as the traffic will bear and, since all this transpires in Buenos Aires, the traffic is reasonably lively. Mr. Ford, meanwhile, develops a fierce protective attachment for his boss, Mr. Macready. He runs his dressy gambling hell for him, supersedes him in his fascist-minded control...