Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then something happened. A rose bush was discovered where tulips should have been. Caretaker Grant lost his temper, the young man lost his job. And next night travelers Manhattan-bound on the State of Maine Express watched a young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert, chew a pencil, write many a word on many a piece of yellow paper. Soon in the Daily Mirror appeared a romantic piece about a "honeymoon nest." It purported to tell of the place where Anne Spencer Morrow, spinster, and Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, bachelor, will spend their first wedded days. And such a piece David...
Married. Rufus T. Bush of Manhattan, Oxford undergraduate, only son of Founder-President Irving T. Bush of Bush Terminal Co.; and Joan Price Jeffery, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...
Helmle & Corbett have raised spires and pediments throughout the East. Most famed is the tan, delicately Gothicized tower of their Bush Terminal office building in Manhattan. In London they thrust up the robust U. S. contours of Bush House among the fragile graces of Christopher Wrenn and Inigo Jones. In Alexandria, Va., they are now building the George Washington Masonic National Memorial...
...future Babe Ruths and Grover Cleveland Alexanders. They have flashed in the southern sun as have others before them. Now they are "great." TIME publishes a list of them. In July TIME will publish the same list with word as to which have stayed "great." which returned to the bush leagues. The list...
Came a sudden cloudburst. Roads were washed out. Impossible to move. Black night descended. Fitfully in their busses the travelers dozed. Came, out of South Africa, a noise like distant thunder, then the full-chested, long-drawn reverberant roar of lions in the bush, a sound no lion makes in captivity...