Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small bull, one large one and two cows,* the Davison party had one cow to go when their trackers led them at dawn up to a herd of elephants feeding slowly along in thick bush. Wrote Father Davison...
...name. Sinister echoes of U. S. big business, of Havana terrorism, are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor at his alma mater Haverford College, Author Wright (real name: William Reitzel) worked in Cuba a year five years ago, there wandered the countryside, spoke the language, watched the people instead...
...Shenandoah and the Blue Ridge are two of the greatest beauties of the South. A third is Mona Strader Schlesinger Bush Williams. Last week Harrison Williams, multi-millionaire utility tycoon, gave up active management of his two investment trusts named for the valley and the mountains. Thus does a New Deal succeed...
...Volcano in the islands. He also bought the Krupp-built Vanados, then largest yacht afloat, with a cruising radius of 12,000 mi., renamed her Warrior and refitted her for his own oceanographic and pleasure purposes. In 1926, having been a widower for eleven years, he suddenly married Mona Bush, beauteous divorced wife of James Irving Bush of Winthrop, Mitchell...
...Bush Terminal. Receivership for Bush Terminal Co. last week put an end to the confused controversy between Founder Irving Ter Bush and the management that succeeded his (TIME, March 27). Two outsiders, James C. Van Siclen, official referee for the New York State Supreme Court, and C. Walter Randall were appointed temporary receivers...