Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jammed display window of a 5 & 10? store, explaining they had no wish to compete with pots & pans. But Giuseppe Gheduzzi, a traditional artist, did very well against similar odds; his pictures, surrounded by pink girdles and brassieres in the window of the Casa del Busto (House of the Bust), sold best...
Next day she learned how doggedly the Lampoon persists in its career of humor. The "Fabian Fall" bronze had disappeared from the sanctum of the Lampoon's ancient rival, Harvard's daily Crimson. It was, in fact, a bust of a former Crimson president who died in office in 1909. At week's end, it was back in the Crimson's sanctum...
...Poonsters marched up with a small brass band. This time, they announced, the Lampoon was giving her the "Fabian Fall Award" as the actress who had "shown the most improvement as a result of a previous receipt of the 'Roscoe.' " Actress Taylor accepted a 25-lb. bronze bust. "This is very kind of you young men," she said...
...slam-bang strokes, delivered with the verve if not the skill of an Alice Marble, took the edge off Beverly's gambling game. In a match that was closer than the score indicated, Nancy won, 6-4, 6-4. Said she: "This is the year to bust up the Brough-Du Pont monopoly...
Crimson Business Manager William S. Holbrook III, announced last night that the organization would bill MGM for all expenses incurred in tracking down the bust. The statue had been placed in a niche in the Crimson "Sanctum" as a memorial for Fall, who was President of the daily...