Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Beach. Calif., a South Carolina Sunday-school teacher, Miriam Stevenson, 21, matched bust (36 in.), waist (24 in.), hips (36 in.) and kinetic attributes against the charms of 32 foreign entries and wound up as this year's Miss Universe, with the usual movie contract, a $4,000 convertible and assorted knickknacks. Burbled she: "Ah woke up with all those roses in mah room an' Ah thought for a moment somebody had died...
...enough of reality. He takes to sulking at home and dining a crew of worthless pickthanks who steal his cigars and tell him what he wants to hear. After some months of "conversing with his buttons," he begins to get peculiar notions. One day he buys a bust of Napoleon and another of Louis Napoleon. Pretty soon he has his beard barbered like Louis Napoleon's. "Wait," he murmurs to Sophia, "I shall still make you Empress." His cronies become marshals, his hens pheasants. In the end, both reason and money are exhausted. Rubião crowns himself Emperor...
...muttered dazedly to his wife: "My lord, the roof has fallen in." In 60 days, $1.5 billion in contracts were canceled, more that 38,000 workers laid off. Bill Allen remembered the grim joke North American's James H. ("Dutch") Kindelberger once told him on the boom-or-bust character of the industry: "If I stub my toe and fall while running to lay off people, we're liable to lose our shirts." Strikes & Stratocruisers. Allen tightened his lips, set out to see what he could salvage. He hardly looked like the man for the job, acted even...
...Mary Lou Bryan showed police a letter from her landlady: "I have a beef with you . . . and when I catch you out in the yard again, I'm going to let you have it, as nothing would give me more pleasure than to black both your eyes and bust you in the nose...
...Green Feather movement started at the University of Indiana early this spring when a textbook commissioner tried to ban "Robin Hood" as subversive. A group of people adopted the green feather of Robin Hood as their symbol and soon attempted to bust McCarthy...