Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year, he committed himself-publicly & privately-to serve out his full four-year term. Presumably he decided that 1) no Governor should step out after two years, 2) no Republican would have much chance against Roosevelt in 1944, 3) a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush...
...Italy hung on the wall behind him. Sir Harold wore a freshly washed khaki bush jacket, dark grey riding breeches, brown boots. The purple-red decoration of the American Legion of Merit was pinned above his breast pocket. Crisply he asked for questions, crisply he answered...
...Boss Rodzinski had demanded, and got, absolute powers over the Philharmonic's artistic policies and personnel, free from all board-of-directors interference. Boss Rodzinski was also a conductor of long experience, particularly famed among musicians as an orchestra builder and repairer. He had, in 1933, developed the bush-league Cleveland Orchestra into one of the Middle West's two finest (the other: the Chicago Symphony). He had been picked by Arturo Toscanini in 1937 to organize and train the NBC Symphony. Last spring Rodzinski got ready for his New York job by suddenly firing or pensioning...
Enrico Caruso made his dazzling international reputation in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. The son of a wine-swilling Neapolitan mechanic, he started as one of the many bush-league Italian tenors of the '90s with a voice so deep that he was accused of being a baritone. Not for several years did he discover his golden tenor range and enormous volume. And even with these assets, his Metropolitan debut in 1903 was no smash. Critics found his acting inferior and his vocal style coarser than that of his great, aristocratic predecessor, Jean de Reszke...
...Australia nine years ago. He brings back to Britain a knowledge and admiration for his Church's work in Australia and New Guinea. Wand's work down under took him not only to the big urban churches of the coastal cities but to isolated missions in the bush. He is especially enthusiastic about the Church's work in prewar New Guinea...