Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile, McCurdy will unveil Phil Williams, who appears in the best condition of his indoor career. With Princeton's Bob Zwirner probably sidelined and Pete Reider doubling the varsity could rack in what had appeared a "bust" event. If Zwirner does not compete, the two-mile will be gravy, with Reided a shoo-in, and Dave Norris and Bill Thompson fighting Eli Jack Bogen for the points...
...interred--the American literary life makes a new chapter for The Golden Bough. And of course it is not only the readers and critics who support our savage demand for greatnes, who insist that every writer carry a banner with the strange device, 'Pike's Peak or Bust;' it is also the writers themselves...
...classroom at Columbia University, his students rise to cheer him. He is being swamped with TV offers and marriage proposals. (A tax expert said he could save $16,000 by getting married this year, and a girl wrote: "I would like to meet you. I am 20, and my bust is 37.") Charlie Van Doren was painfully torn between going on again this week at the risk of losing some of his big stake to a new opponent, or getting out now that he has enough to finance a "snazzy sports car" and several free summers in which to finish...
...Administration to the Small Business Administration, have taken on important financial duties independent of the FRB. As a result, some economists fear that the nation's many credit operations are not well enough controlled or coordinated, could get out of hand, and turn the boom into a disastrous bust...
...Hollywood or Bust (Hal Wallis; Paramount) might be called a redundant pun. Like most Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis productions, the movie is a package job. It tidily wraps up some songs (by Dean), a few gags (by Jerry), a couple of dozen long-stemmed American beauties (in shorts), a lot of scenery (in VistaVision), and Anita Ekberg (in decolletage). The opportunity to display all these items begins when Jerry, an idiotic movie fan, sets out for Hollywood with Dean to meet Anita, the movie queen of his dreams. Stopping off in Las Vegas, Jerry gets his lucky feeling, parlays...