Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good wine needs no bush, but U. S. wine-bibbers, still weltering in the unaccustomed freedom of Repeal, do not know good wine from bad. "Purposely delayed until the excitement of repeal had abated," The Complete Wine Book proposes to tell U. S. amateurs how to know, buy, store, make, serve wines. Far from first of its kind in the field, it is most complete, most up-to-date of the lot. Written plainly, authoritatively, it attacks the "ridiculous ritual" and "absurd snobbishness" which have sprung up around U. S. wine-drinking, appeals to common sense rather than pretentious palates...
...Angeles, Judge Guy F. Bush heard John LeGrand plead guilty to a charge of grand theft. One day, while the trial was going on, the prisoner's wife came to plead for her husband. "The first time I saw Mrs. LeGrand in my chambers," said Judge Bush, "I had a peculiar feeling that our future destinies were strangely intermingled." Judge Bush sentenced LeGrand to two years in jail. Four months later Judge Bush called Convict LeGrand before him, reduced his sentence to six months. On that day Mrs. LeGrand filed suit for divorce. When her divorce was granted, Judge...
...HEIFER-F.D. Davison-Coward-McCann ($2). Tale of wild cattle in the Australian bush, its heroine a red heifer. Originally published at the author's expense, it was awarded a gold medal by the Australian Literature Society for the best novel...
...Umpire, Madden. Linesman, Shrigley. Time, four 10-minute periods. The summaries: WINTHROP LEVERETT Emerson, Holbrook, l.e. r.e., Rawson Whitemore, Day, l.t. r.t., Goulder MacArthur, Lewison, l.g. r.g., Cloues Noble, c. c., Hopson Lehman, Breck, r.g. l.g., Scannel Sullivan, Beale, r.t. l.t., Cook, Riggs Miuolo, Curtis, r.e. l.e., Cushman Haring, Bush, q.b. q.b., Tyng Purdy, l.h.b. r.h.b., Stevens Hindle, r.h.b. l.h.b., Maddux Taylor, Kelly, f.b. f.b., Lawrence...
...eight months every year, does not practice before a match because it does his game no good. His fiancee is British Cinemactress Mary Lawson, a onetime tap dancer, who is 5 ft. tall, wears size 2 shoes, plays no tennis at all. Last week she was at Shepherd's Bush making a picture called Schooldays in which she plays...