Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long crowds of curious Easterners milled about the desert garden of Robert F. Manda where more than 1,000 varieties of weird misshapen cacti were growing in sand and rocks. Fourth day of the show the crowd grew even thicker. The "Crown of Thorns," a rare silver-grey prickle bush brought from Palestine by Cactus-grower Manda 25 years ago, had suddenly burgeoned with dozens of brilliant red flowers. Only once in three or four years does the Crown of Thorns bloom, hardly ever at this season, never before at the New York Flower Show...
These challenges did not catch Nevada napping. At Carson City, Representative Guy Walts of Reno tossed into the legislature a bill which would cut the State residence period from 90 to 42 days. In an effort to kill the Walts measure by ridicule, State Senator Duane Bush, who has no interest in Reno hotels, offered a bill for divorce-by-mail...
...Siedoi travels hither and yon-"His Excellency the Inspector of Railroads" he comes to be known as- until one day Fedka, who has withdrawn from the topsy-turvy People's world to live and hunt in the forest with Katok, finds his old friend Siedoi lying under a bush, staring at the morning sun with unwinking eyes, gladly dying. Thus ends one of the most articulate books of Russia, of human and other natures, yet written in the Tolstoi vein...
...more Australian than Melba herself. In Australia she grew up as Nellie Porter Mitchell, daughter of a rigid Scottish contractor who thwarted all her early efforts to make music a profession. He relented after her unfortunate marriage to Charles Nesbitt Armstrong, manager of a sugar plantation in the Queensland Bush, whom she left two months after the birth of her son George. She left her son, too, although she continued to provide for him. When he was 23 their reconciliation took place in Kansas City, and in recent years she had displayed great pride in grandmothering his daughter Pamela...
Score--Andover 25, Harvard Freshmen 23, Goals--Kellogg 4, Meighan 3, Barr 1, Beckwith 1, Bush 1, Nevin 3, Cary 2, Ferriter 2, Huntington 1, Fouls--Kellogg 2, Meighan 2, Sweet 1, Huntington 3, Ferriter 2, Cary 1, Henderson 1. Referee--Macbeth. Time--two 20-minute periods...