Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for nice music. Pipe Dream is pretty much of a bust. It is so warm-hearted about a cold world, so high-minded about its lowlifes as to emerge mere hootch-coated butterscotch. Its bawdyhouse seems about as sinful as Saturday night in a Y.W.C.A.; when its mugs and molls carouse, what is meant to be lowdown seems more like a hoedown. And it is not just the madam who has a heart of gold; with all of its characters' hearts, Pipe Dream shows a positive Midas touch...
...Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. She always had a curious sensation of being more alive when she was playing somebody else than when she was being herself. At eleven she confided passionately to the Harris cook: "I'm going to be an actress -or bust...
Symphony, he paces about his penthouse with lips clamped in the expression of the well-known bust in the music room; but somehow, with his fluttery dimples and impetuous curls, he looks rather more like a pink plastic dolly with built-in colic...
...unpleasant duty to perform. On the first day of a new parliamentary session, he had to submit a supplementary "crisis" budget which hustled out a summer of prosperity and ushered in a winter of what looked dismayingly like oldtime austerity, as practiced by Sir Stafford Cripps. Britain is not bust but suffering from too much boom, yet Butler's nostrums bore the same cramping old labels (Higher Taxes, Lower Consumption) as those prescribed by Old Austerity himself...
...border to Point Arena, no miles northwest of San Francisco, and out to sea. When the fault slips, it causes a major earthquake. Last week Seismologist Charles F. Richter of Caltech outraged chambers of commerce by warning that the San Andreas Fault has been gathering pressure for a major bust-loose...