Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White Star Liner Britannic put in at Boston last week. Down the gangplank walked a handsome, fox-bearded gentleman with a black slouch hat and the mysterious manner of the Chief Conspirator in an Italian opera. His name, according to the passenger list, was PROFESSOR CLARENCE SKINNER. Behind the bush of Professor Skinner newshawks instantly recognized the features of Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. Governor Norman promptly boarded the Bar Harbor express to visit "Larchsea," summer home of his friend Mrs. John Markoe of Philadelphia. Governor Norman's visits...
...Chicago Cubs: the longest baseball game of the current National League season (19 innings). 3 to 2 from the Boston Braves; at Chicago. Pitcher Guy Bush, who replaced Pitcher Bud Tinning for Chicago in the 18th inning, pitched one inning, received credit for the victory. Next day the Cubs beat the Braves 4 to 3 in 15 innings. Pitcher Bush replaced Pitcher Bob Smith in the 15th, received credit for another victory. In a National League pennant race even closer than last year's, the Brooklyn Dodgers last week overtook the Pittsburgh Pirates in second place, whittled Chicago...
Married. Rufus T. Bush, 24, son of Irving T. Bush, head of Brooklyn's Bush Terminal Co.; and Jane Louise Reid, 24, of Kansas City, Mo.; in Kansas City. Week ago Son Bush was divorced from Joan Jeffrey Bush in Bentonville...
Authoress Undset's latest novel stands a very slim chance of being put on the Pope's Index Librorum Prohibitorum. If not exactly a manual for Roman Catholics, The Burning Bush should please Catholic palates and doubtless annoy any heffling Protestant literate enough to read it. A sequel to The Wild Orchid, The Burning Bush carries the story of Paul Selmer from young married days to a ripe and disillusioned middle...
...BURNING BUSH-Sigrid Und-set-Knopf ($2.50). THE FAMILY CIRCLE-Andre Mau-rois-Appleton ($2.50). A GOOD MAN'S LOVE-E. M. Dela-field-Harper ($2.50). THE JOURNEY INWARD - Kurt Heuser-Viking ($2.50). CHARLOTTE BRONTE-E. F. Benson -Longmans, Green ($4). A not unfriendly debunking of the tense Bronte household by the expert Victorianographer of As We Were...