Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mondays and Thursdays, she used to stand at the head of a long line on Manhattan's Bowery, handing out meal tickets, clothing, spectacles, false teeth, wooden legs, etc. to those in need. It cost her and her friends $35,000 a year, was abandoned when Financier Bush decided that other relief agencies were handling the work effectively...
...Bush's "automatic painting" started eleven years ago at the time of her mother's death. Grief stricken, she pondered suicide, suddenly felt an uncontrollable desire to paint...
Whatever the spirit that paints Mrs. Bush's pictures, it has a morbid mind. Peace, most interesting canvas on view last week, showed the face of a drowned girl floating in water sprinkled with flowers, while over it hovers a weird bird with a very long beak and a tightly curled tail...
...understand it," said Terminal Man Bush last week, "though I am beginning to like some of the things in spite of myself...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt. For two generations the House of Morgan, George Fisher Baker's First National Bank and the Vanderbilt sons and grandsons have been at Central's throttle. But early this month a new force entered the Central when 74-year-old Leonor Fresnel Loree, the bush-bearded president of smallish Delaware & Hudson, triumphantly announced that he had bought 10% of Central's stock (TIME, Feb. 6). Last week he was trying to persuade the I. C. C. to let him have an official seat at Central's council table. Central's president, Frederick...