Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ladies and Gentlemen (produced by Gilbert Miller; by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur from a play by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete) brings Near-Divinity Helen Hayes back to Broadway in her first new role there since December 1935. For this Broadway can rejoice, even though finding anything to rejoice at in the play itself is like looking for a needle in a Hayestack. After a two-month tryout, this thing of shreds & patches is still, like Gaul, divided into three parts-comedy, drama, romance -and, as in Gaul, the three parts are on very uncivil terms...
...Maryland's tony Eastern Shore, came out of Swarthmore in 1893, when the U. S., ceasing to stretch out, was beginning to build up, turning to reinforced concrete to do it with. His company grew rapidly, helped by generous orders from Paper Magnate Robert Gair, Warehouse Magnate Irving Bush. Up to Sept. 15, 1939 it had done $434,333,000 worth of business, eight of its jobs exceeding $5,000,000 apiece, 126 running from $1-$5,000,000. Nineteen twenty-nine was its best year (gross $43,717,000), 1933 its worst since 1909 (gross...
...twig in a bush would get going...
...gunpowder) went off harmlessly. Too frail to operate the soon discredited "Bushnell's Turtle" himself, its inventor blamed its failure on its operators. After the war he was believed to have spent several years in France. In 1795 he appeared in Georgia, where, under the name of Dr. Bush, he taught school, later began to practice medicine. When he died at 82, David Bushnell was so obscure that no one could remember whether he had ever been married...
John Harvey Bass, Jr., Joseph William Bex, Edwin Elberg Boysen, Curtis Antrim Bush, John Richard Christian, William West Cleveland, Jean England deValpine, George Worth Fowler Jr., John Sells Graettinger, John Peasise Graves, John Francis Harvey, James Sloane Higgins, Kenneth Day Johanson, Eugene Parr Johnson, Paul Sigurd Johrde, Walter Scott Long, Jr., Donald Frank McDonald, Thomas Herbert Malim, David Martin, Robert Glenn Martin, Arthur Taylor von Mehren, Robert Earl Middleton, Frank Gustavus Miller, Maynard Malcolm Miller, Duane Keith Ocheltree, Harold Clarence Passer, Dick S. Payne, Donald MacKonzie Pitcairn, Ralph Hubert Potter, James Allan Rafferty, Thomas Ben Ragland, Jr., Andrew Eliot Rice...