Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Filming a desert forced landing, newlywed Cinemactress Bette Davis hopped as she was supposed to out the plane door, landed as she was not supposed to, derry-down-dilly in a cactus bush. A doctor tweezered out 45 spines...
Without beating around the bush, the board asked Congress to take back the power to devalue the dollar that it had given to Franklin Roosevelt, to scrap the Administration's authority (never used) to issue $3,000,000,000 worth of new currency backed by nothing but Government credit, to repeal the Treasury's right to issue $1.29 worth of silver coins for each ounce of foreign silver it buys (current price: 35? an ounce). The board argued that these three measures, adopted during Depression I to combat deflation, are no longer needed. What is needed, thanks...
...David H. Bush, Utica...
...staunch as his six-foot, two hundred pound frame are the isolationist convictions of Representative Ham Fish, who stated in an exclusive interview in Washington last Thursday that he would not be trailing behind in the fight for peace despite the drift of public opinion against him and the bush-bush policy of the Eastern press...
Funny. Psychiatrist Bernard Glueck of Ossining, N. Y. thought his colleagues were beating about the bush. "It is difficult,'' said he, "not to be somewhat amused by this general tendency to put all faith in more research as the solution." Physicians, said he, know enough to cure drunkenness. There are as many varieties of alcoholics as there are cabbages: some have an inferiority complex; some learn in college; others are social misfits or homosexuals. Psychiatrists can cure most alcoholics, provided that: 1) the patient really wants to be cured; 2) he stays with the doctor long enough...