Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the windows of their Fifth Avenue apartment, overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, an insurance broker and his wife saw a middle-aged woman carry a package into the park, put it under a bush and walk away. That seemed queer. Next day, at the same late afternoon hour, they saw her again. They watched to see what happened to the package. Nothing happened. But in the morning it was gone. No matter how late they watched-and sometimes they sat up very late, with binoculars-they never saw anyone take the box away. But in the morning...
...detectives waited near the bush, arrested the woman, took her and her package off to a police station. There they found that they had captured none other than famed onetime Metropolitan Opera Soprano Frieda Hempel...
Five years ago, explained Mme. Hempel, she had met a stray dog in the park, whom she christened Brownie. Brownie was a very hard dog to get to know, wouldn't let her get near him. Finally she began taking him food, leaving it for him under the bush. Between them they worked out a system: Brownie waited till she was gone, then carried the box away to another spot-always the same one-some distance away, where he removed string and paper, opened the box, ate the food and left the empty box for Mme. Hempel...
...Nominated bush-browed liberal David J. Winton of Minnesota as the first U.S. Minister to New Zealand-to Mr. Winton's surprise...
...revolutionary method of treatment for victims of acute infantile paralysis was endorsed last week by the Journal of the American Medical Association. It consists of hot compresses and exercises (TIME, June 23) developed by Sister* Elizabeth Kenny, a nurse in the Australian bush, who came to the U.S. last year, worked in Minneapolis hospitals...