Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie empire which Britain's Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank put together in 14 years was in the midst of its own austerity program. Up for sale this week at public auction will go his studios at Shepherd's Bush and Islington. Rank, who could use the money, hopes that they will be knocked down for not less than ?250,000, possibly to BBC's television division. (The studios are too antiquated to interest U.S. moviemakers in England.) Of the four studios which will be left to Rank, two are shut tight and two are operating at only...
...fine day in the spring of 1912, Monsieur Eduard Thibandeau, the esteemed mayor of Shawinigan Falls, Quebec, decided to take a walk into the bush from his country villa at Lac des lies. In the course of his visitation to this uninhabited ares, he came upon a very young and altogether wretched cow moose upon whom he took immediate pity. He swept the gawky calf into his arms and carried it back to his house. After a brief meditation, he decided that the animal should be removed to his stable in Shawinigan Falls and trained to peform some useful duty...
...Tokyo audiences, the Ainus only pretended to kill the bear and drink his blood. They shared the bill with a bebop band and a nicely undressed chorus. "Tokyo," murmured one bush-bearded, 74-year-old aborigine eying the chorus, "is the best part of Japan; Hokkaido is too far out in the sticks...
Committee members include Dean Kerby-Miller, chairman; professors John D. Bush, Kirtley F. Mather, Keyes D. Metcalfe, University librarian, and Miss Georgiana Hinkley, former Radcliffe librarian--a position now held by Miss Ruth Porritt...
...stale jokes strangers make about their town's name. I know just how the citizens of Bird in Hand, Pa. brace themselves when an out-of-state car slows down and the smirking driver leans out and asks the way to the town of Two-in-the-Bush. I also . . . sympathize with all bearers of unusual Christian or surnames...