Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...junket. Before he sailed for Oslo, he confidently left in the hands of the House Foreign Affairs Committee a bill proposing a $50,000 appropriation for a 1940 session of the Union in the U. S. In choosing his fellow junketeers, happy Mr. Fish overlooked Massachusetts' bush-bearded George Tinkham, a power on the House committee and inordinately fond of travel. As Congress adjourned, Mr. Tinkham was able to cable Mr. Fish: "We have thrown your invitation in the wastebasket...
Ladies and Gentlemen (by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, from a play by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete; produced by Gilbert Miller). Decade ago the late Minnie Maddern Fiske huffed, barked, flounced her way through a typical virtuoso's vehicle, Ladies of the Jury. Hungarian Ladislaus Bush-Fekete (né Bus-Fekete: the "h" was his idea of Americanizing the name) made a play with the same situation-a resourceful woman swinging the rest of a jury around from a verdict of guilty to acquittal in a murder case...
Margaret Storm Jameson's Yorkshire novels are as tough and interrelated as the roots of a bush. Latest offshoot, The Captain's Wife, is not part of her big novel-in-progress, The Mirror in Darkness, but it shares some of the same characters. And they, like all the berries on Storm Jameson's bush, are as bittersweet as ever...
...Negro. The boy could at first make only baboonlike noises. When he learned Afrikaans, he told goggle-eyed Professor Dart': "My food consisted mainly of crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey. . . . While with the baboons I walked on all fours and slept in the bush entirely naked...
...match wits with many a famed onetime major-leaguer. Among his rivals in the International League (Class AA) are three former big-league managers: Rogers Hornsby (Baltimore Orioles), Burleigh Grimes (Montreal Royals) and Steve O'Neill (Buffalo Bisons). Other famed big-leaguers now managing minor-league teams: Donie Bush (Louisville Colonels), Roger Peckinpaugh (New Orleans Pelicans), Lefty O'Doul (San Francisco Seals), Rabbit Maranville (Albany Senators), Kiki Cuyler (Chattanooga Lookouts), Blondy Ryan (Clinton, la. Giants), Goose Goslin (Trenton Senators...