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...Cunning Bun. Around 10:30 the Nixons quietly left. Their takeoff was followed by the departure of stiff, proper Society Matron Mrs. Merriweather Post, hair in cunning bun, dignity coolly intact. Hardly anyone cared; the band blasted out with Hold That Tiger, and for hours that tiger was really loose; jitterbugging, rock 'n' rolling, the crowd poured it on. At length, in the early hours of the morning, the party and the liquor began to subside. Tired, rumpled and glassy-eyed, the guests found their way to the door. Last to leave: Senator Russ Long, his face glowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Mardi Gras on the Potomac | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...movements, i.e., the Oxford Movement (Keble, Newman, Pusey), the Frank Buchman "Oxford Group"-Moral Re-Armament, the pacifism of the '30s. Whatever the reticence, churchgoing is at a new high level. "It's quite a relief," said one staunch Anglican last week. "Let them have all the bun fights they want. At least, nobody any longer believes that religion is the haven of anti-intellectual obscurantism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bun-Fight Revival | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...nuns of a Spanish convent. Visually, it was as attractive as anything seen this year, with the beautiful faces of novices hanging raptly over the child's crib and their lullabies blending with the plainsong devotions from the chapel. The play was dreamlike, as sweet as a sugar bun and scarcely more substantial, but it was also sunlit with innocence and warmly acted by Judith Anderson. Evelyn Varden. Deirdre Owens and. particularly, by Ireland's Siobhan (pronounced Shivaun) McKenna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...There are at least a dozen ways of spelling the Prime Minister's name, all of them pronounced Pea Bun Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WEDNESDAY'S CHILD | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...found that the major difference between the two tracks was the size of the quadrupeds running--a difference of some 12 hands--and the presence of "jeep," better known as the mechanical rabbit, or "there goes the bun-neee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Everything's Going' | 4/28/1955 | See Source »

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