Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their mother and the Vails found out as soon as they reached the garage. . . . Evidently an assassin, lurking behind the shelter of a rose bush, loosed deadly fire just as Mellett was shutting the doors. One of the slugs had gone in behind his ear, causing instant death...
...Chac, the Rain God, and many another spot in Chichen Itza, the Mayan Capital (TIME, May 17, BOOKS), has pushed his investigations inland to Coba, an older, provincial Mayan city [visited last winter by Dr. Gann (TIME, April 26)]. The expedition found unknown ruins called by local bush-dwellers "Macanxoc" meaning "you can't read it," ruins of what was doubtless Coba's religious centre...
Last week William Eleazar Barton, hoary custodian of Lincolnia, proclaimed that Father Cyr, who his Eminence declared celebrated the masses at Lincoln's stepmother's, had not yet been ordained when Lincoln left his father's home, that Sarah Bush Lincoln was not Catholic by birth and that she died in the communion of the Disciples Church, that Father St. Cyr never celebrated mass in the Lincoln abode, that if Cardinal Mundelein really wanted the six carved chairs, Dr. Barton would gladly exchange them for their weight in gold...
...moist, murmurous Indian nights a British captain sat behind a bush with an elephant gun on his knees, waiting for Satan. On the other side of the bush a goat was tethered, for it was known that Satan had an appetite for goats. For seven years the Black God had padded on cat feet over 350 square miles of Western Garhwal; in that time he had killed 125 humans, snatching them in village streets, at the very doors of houses. Sixteen Indian shimkaris, paid by the government, had shot at him and missed; gun traps, arsenic, cyanide and prayer...
...Boston; Laurence Eliot Bunker, of Wellesley Hills; Frank Morton Carpenter, of Cambridge; Leonard Phyneas Dantzig, of Chicago, III.: Thomas Carr Howe, Jr. of Indianapolis, Ind.: Robert William Lishman, of Lynn: Theodore Benedict Massell, of Brookline; William lehabod Nichols, of Wilton Conr John Mikon Potter, of Milwaukee, Wis: Carl Joseph Bush, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Leopold Urtel Shapiro, of Boston; Hymen Theodore Silverstein, of Mattapan; Davidson Sommers, of St. Paul, Minn.; Wilfred Shafer Stone, of La Grange...