Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will likely as not use an eight out of sheer vanity. Once, when a man chivalrously offered her the honor in teeing off, she withered him with, "Naw, you better hit first cause it'll be the last time you get the honor-and you'd better bust a good one if you don't want to be outdrove 20 yards...
...your article on Francis Henry Taylor, you mention his "striking resemblance to Rodin's bust of Louis XVI." Last summer, while visiting the Huntington Library at San Marino, Calif., I Was struck by this very resemblance. But the bust I was looking at is by a contemporary of Louis XVI, J. A. Houdon. If there is a bust of this monarch by Rodin, please print a reproduction and settle the question of Houdonit...
...takes a peculiar combination of scholar, executive and showman to run a venture like the Metropolitan. Francis Taylor seems to have the combination. Says a friend: "He has the administrative ability of Eisenhower and the scheming patience of Machiavelli, and he bears a striking resemblance to Rodin's bust of Louis XVI." Moreover, and more important, he can work in harness with such diverse types as learned curators and unlearned but connoisseur trustees...
Four years later some classmates returned to Cambridge and were horrified to see pigeons were making a mess of their gift. So in 1908 the class raised $250 to clean the bust and seat below: "The class desired that the College should not be out to any expense in future in keeping the bust, pedestal, and seat clean and in good order...
This was done until 1932 when Lowell House acquired the bust and assumed the cleaning expenses. But it then took the Corporation 18 years to decide to divert the income from the fund to "maintenance of the Yard...