Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opera singers, no U.S. maestro has so far reached international fame as a symphony conductor."This scarcity of important U.S. maestros has long kept U.S. critics and concertgoers guessing. Commonest rationalizations : 1) Americans lack the dictatorial temperament characteristic of men like Toscanini, Stokowski, Koussevitzky ; 2) the U.S. lacks bush-league opera houses and symphony orchestras such as provide European maestros with experience...
...love weed, bambalacha, mohasky, mu, moocah, grass, tea or blue sage. Cigarets made from it are killers, goof-butts, joy-smokes, giggle-smokes or reefers. The word marijuana is of Mexican origin and means "the weed that intoxicates." It is made from the Indian hemp plant, a spreading green bush resembling sumac. Known to the pharmacopoeia as Cannabis sativa, it is a source of important paint ingredients and rope fiber as well as narcotics. It can be grown easily almost anywhere, hence tends to be inexpensive, as drugs go. Its recent prices (10? to 50? a cigaret) have placed...
...from snake catchers, produces antivenin, has sent off thousands of doses all over the world. (Puff-adder venom is also used as a coagulant in hemophilia.) A quick injection of serum has saved the life of many a soldier bitten by ugly horned vipers in the West African desert, bush-masters in Central America, kraits and king cobras on the Burma front and mambas in South Africa...
...Bush (née Spore) was born near Bay City, Mich. She is a sister of the late U.S. Navy Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam. In her time she has practiced dentistry, and as a lavish Manhattan charitarian she became known as "The Angel of the Bowery...
...Bushes have no hesitation in revealing that 18 months before the stock-market crash of 1929. Mrs. Bush predicted its coming, to the week. Mr. Bush took advantage of this information to unload 25% of his holdings - wishes it had been more...