Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Manner. He lived magnificently. When Widower Williams married twice-divorced Mona Bush, a handsome Kentucky belle 24 years his junior, their honeymoon was spent on Williams' Warrior, then the world's largest yacht. He bought villas at Capri, Palm Beach, Long Island, Judge Gary's Fifth Avenue mansion and a Paris town house. Perennially, couturiers hailed Mona Williams as the best-dressed woman in the world...
...Albert, a raffish alligator who smokes cigars, courts a skunk with a French accent, and describes himself as "handsome, brilliant and modest to a fare-thee-well"; Howland Owl, a foolish old bird who crosses a "gee-ranium" plant with a yew tree, hoping to get a "yew-ranium" bush for an atom bomb; the Deacon, a muskrat so elegantly educated that he speaks mostly in Old English script...
...warm, dry veldtland. Her gradual emergence into the sun and warmth, in both the literal and figurative senses, and her final dramatic renunciation of the cold, unsensual life with her husband are very neatly done. Mr. Conboy builds his setting with authority and a minimum of beating around the bush, which gives the story an extremely rapid pace. My only complaint would lie with the insufficient development of the husband, who remained throughout little more that a stereotype all set about with raindrops...
...skate to & from school in the best French-Canadian tradition. And even today, in solitary practice rituals that less talented players would scorn, Richard tears up & down the Canadiens' rink just to keep in shape. After four years of this sort of perseverance in Canada's bush hockey leagues, Richard hit the big time with the Canadiens...
...them together in a single panel to show the camera's range: Sweden's Gustav V ("the simple dignity of a democratic king"), Jersey City's Hague ("the arrogant power of a mayor"), Britain's Attlee ("the bewilderment of a politician"), and U.S. Technologist Vannevar Bush ("the serenity of a distinguished scientist...