Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aware that nursery songs like A-Tisket, A-Tasket and Stop Beatin' 'Round the Mulberry Bush were raging furiously among jazz musicians, Saxie Dowell fixed up the Southern song with some new verses, some boop-boops, a two-bar tune, repeated (with little variation) eight times. The result was published last April by Santly-Joy-Select, Inc., which got out The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round and admits to liking "crazy things." Under its title Three Little Fishies, Saxie Dowell's song last week had set something of a current record by leading the field...
...chain stocks to the highest level since the August 1937 bull market. Such perennial market favorites as Chrysler, U. S. Rubber and U. S. Steel were forced to share popularity with stocks which speculators seldom bother with: food stocks-Standard Brands, National Biscuit, Kroger Grocery -even such a market bush-leaguer as Safeway Stores (third in number of stores, second in sales volume among U. S. food chains). Meantime steel, auto, chemical stocks bobbed indecisively up & down...
Only slightly more agonizing than young Mr. Fairbanks' throes in putting this subversive two & two together is the sight of middle-aged Mr. Rathbone, as a sort of Imperial Rover Boy, lashing about the jungle in bush jacket and shorts, caught barekneed between Love & Duty...
...said he would be too busy with "American business" to join his colleagues in receiving Their Majesties in the Capitol rotunda. (The spot picked for this ceremony was under a portrait of Pocahontas, facing pictures of the surrenders of Cornwallis and Burgoyne, the signing of the Declaration of Independence.) Bush-bearded Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts asked to be assured that the royal visit portended no entangling alliance. Courtly Senator Ashurst promised everyone that he would bow low as usual, said his head is always "unbloody but bowed...
Last week Bombster Bush did it again. This time he rented Albert Hall (capacity 12,000), and launched a three-day Festival of Music for the People. Main feature: a massive pageant depicting the story of "the people in their struggle forward out of subjection." In it danced, acted, sang and marched 500 pageanteers from London's Labor choirs, 100 folk dancers from the village of Abbott's Bromley, dancers from London's Communist Unity Theatre, Negro Baritone Paul Robeson, and 100 English veterans of the Spanish Loyalist army. Its music was composed by a bombing squad...