Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tippling a bit or sinking his hands lovingly into dough, Philip teasing the baker's lovesick apprentice. Novelist Newby has a fine ear for simple speech ("The tongue is the waterspout of the heart," declaims Uncle Adrian, "and if you let it get clogged your heart'll bust"). He writes with poetic affection for the countryside: "It was chalk country. Except where the trees stood in neat clumps upon the hills and where a belt of cornfields crept up among the contours, the turf and tilth were thin upon the rock. Cut this country anywhere in lane...
...portraits of Stalin. Kim's office is a real-life equivalent of the one used by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator. Rich with gaudy rugs and expensive furniture, it is dominated by an enormous mahogany desk which is flanked on the left by a foot-high plaster bust of Kim, on the right by a bust of Stalin...
Stop Short? In Washington a State Department spokesman neatly summarized the U.S. position. Said he: "The whole [Korean] operation would be a bust if we stopped at the 38th parallel. If we stop short we might as well have stayed out to begin with...
Despite the materials shortages of World War II, Gossard kept its sales up by such new products as the high-backed "curvette" for women war workers, to ease the strain of long hours in factories. When the New Look came in and dressmakers talked blithely of the "natural bust," perhaps without a brassiere, Gossard quickly added: "The natural rounded bust, but with an uplift...
Then, snubbed by Harvard, the bust moved to M.I.T., where it wound up on the steps of Tech's Walker Memorial Hall. There an art-loving janitor took it in tow, and presented it to puzzled M.I.T. officials, who had absolutely no idea where Charles Tallman came from, who he was, or what to do with...