Word: busful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brownsville, Tex., a bus driver figured out a yardstick for determining a child's age no matter what his mother said. "I look at their teeth. If they have a full set, they...
...issue had come to a head in Ewing Township, N.J., hereto fore chiefly noted because Washington's men marched through its woods and fields on thier way to victories at Trenton and Princeton. For some years, Ewing Township had been reimbursing parents out of tax money for bus fares paid by their children traveling to & from school. Several thousands of dollars a year were refunded to parents of public-school children. Then, under a 1941 state law, $357.74 (for a half year) went to parents who sent their children to Roman Catholic schools. The amount was trifling, but the principle...
...Yorkers got an unlikely bouquet from James H. Gipson, peripatetic Idaho publisher: "I cannot recall a single instance of rudeness or bad manners. This is true not only of those in high places . . . but of the policemen, the subway guards, the bus drivers, and the man in the street generally...
...WAYWARD Bus (312 pp.)-John Steinbeck-Viking...
John Steinbeck's new novel moves like the bus, Sweetheart, through a day of heavy spring rains in the Salinas valley country of California. The setting, familiar to Steinbeck readers, comes out fresh and fragrant in Steinbeck's prose. A few of the characters are fragrant too, but his story, a sort of Grand Hotel in a bus, is cunning and cheap. The Book-of-the-Month Club, though making the book its March choice, has warned its readers: "Mr. Steinbeck . . . may write too freely for the taste of some readers, particularly parents who may have teen...