Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notch German refugees. He headed the group of Philharmonic patrons who canceled their subscriptions when Germany's Wilhelm Furtwängler was named Toscanini's successor (see p. 51 ), was first to restore his gift when Furtwängler withdrew. Short, stocky, with a great black bush of hair. Founder Hirschmann plays a tough game of tennis, has "three hobbies: music, long tramps in the woods, helping penniless musicians...
...creature with furry ears and an affectionate disposition, the koala-along with such other Australian curiosities as wombats, wallaroos, kookaburras and the duck-billed platypus -thrived until white men came. When Chile's supply of chinchilla began to run low, hunters and trappers swarmed out through the Australian bush, slaughtered koalas by tens of thousands, shipped their hides off to the U. S. to be made into cheap fur coats or women's bags, belts and shoes. After a time Australia declared a permanent closed season on koalas, but by then the little beast was almost extinct...
...been asked what I think of American football. Well, I'll be frank. When I saw about 40 hunched and helmeted figures charge out on the field my first instinct was to fly. They all looked like an Australian desperado named Ned Kelly. This gentleman was a bush ranger (first cousin to a gangster), who, in the last century, acquired a coat of chain mail, made himself a helmet out of a kerosene tin, and terrified the Australian bush by daring feats of robbery and violence...
...idea of a second professional league, which got quick backing. Burly, pipe-smoking Dr. March is currently its president. Most remarkable of the League's teams are the Yankees and the Tigers, both owned and backed by New York socialites. Owner of the Yankees is Broker James Irving Bush. Among its stockholders is Playwright Sidney Kingsley (Men in White). The team plays in red, white & blue uniforms, has two lady pressagents...
...thus narrowly avoided death was Squadron Leader F. D. R. ("Ferdie") Swain, 33-year-old Royal Air Force test pilot. A voluble, keen-faced bachelor, he entered the R. A. F. in 1922, served in Ismailia, Heliopolis, commanded a test flight in Africa during which he crashed in the bush, was provisioned by parachute and rescued by a special safari. Last June he was appointed to a crack experimental group at Farnborough. In his flight last week he carried a silver figurine of St. Christopher as mascot, relished his narrow squeak, as he explained afterward, because "flying is the only...