Word: bushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play has its moments. But besides going all around the mulberry bush, it offers too much routine sentiment and commonplace writing. The evening's one great asset is Louis Calhern's fine playing of the tangy, once powerful, still dignified...
...cabbage-tree hat and overalls, "Buster" became his second shiralee, and as Macauley trudged with her from job to job on the back tracks of the bush, his churlishness toward his burden slowly changed to brusque tenderness. Macauley's growing-up is obviously meant to be the heart of the story, but the book's strength lies in its Cineramic picture of the swagman's life-taking a turn at shearing, cutting burrs, fencing or digging spuds. To Macauley this was the only life, for "you have a hundred roads to choose from and a hundred towns...
That summer of 1910, at the age of 20, he signed on at $75 a month as an out fielder for a bush-league club in Kankakee. Ill. In July the league folded. Not Casey. He moved to Maysville, Ky., in the Blue Grass League. He was in base ball for life...
...bush-league outfielder catching flies on his head, or Uncle Robbie catching that grapefruit. He can be the fading shortstop who can't go to his left any more-he will do a stiff-legged dance in the direction of an invisible ball; his face will break into naive wonderment as the phantom sphere whistles past. He thinks nothing of ruining a good suit of clothes to make his point. This summer, after the All-Star game in Milwaukee, he acted out that 1923, inside-the-park...
...Bush: "As one of its trustees, I thank the Senator for that very generous observation...