Word: busches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Busch understands understatement. He describes the vagrants at Mr. Zero's Manhattan canteen: "They could have their bowls filled as often as they liked. They did not spill anything. They ate intensely and without haste. They did not look at each other...
...Profiler Busch explains his method: "Usually I get some friend of the proposed subject to tell a few stories. Then I get some enemy of my subject to do the same . . . then I ask [the subject] a list of routine questions that would draw the truth out of a stone. When that is over I ask . . . the story of his life. While he is telling it I take...
Only reluctantly, and under the taunt of inconsistency from Anhenser Busch, did they press for the cessation of the sale of liquor on vessels under the American flag. The New Republic has frequently suggested to the chief upholder of the nobles experiment that he get down to business by stopping drinking in the army and navy and in the immediate vicinity of the capital of Washington...
...Germanic Museum of the University was faultded. He realized the need for an institution through which students could come into closer contact with German art and culture than is offered by lectures and reading alone. This idea for warded by Professor Francke and sponsored by such men as Adolphus Busch has made possible the museum that Harvard has today...
Taken to the Adolphus Hotel (owned by Adolphus Busch, grandson of the famed brewer) Capt. Coste mingled tact with candor in writing of his cross-country flight for the New York Times: "It was not hard-pouf, pouf, it was nothing at all! . . . I do not think anyone ever made $25,000 more easily. . . . The reception we received here was marvelous! Never has anyone so generously . . . greeted us, not even in New York. . . . I wish to give thanks to these Dallas people-'tres gentil...