Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phrase adapted from Lincoln Steffens. When Steffens returned from his trip to Russia soon after the Revolution, he visited his old friend, Sculptor Jo Davidson, who was busy doing a bust of Bernard Baruch. Said Baruch: "So you've been over into Russia." Replied Steffens: "I have been over into the future, and it works...
Uncorseted, her friendly bust...
...only decoration in the Philadelphia office of Samuel Simeon Pels is a bust of Abraham Lincoln, made entirely of soap. That is fitting enough: Samuel Fels, who celebrated his goth birthday last week, has spent a lifetime making soap. Still active as president of Fels & Co. (Fels-Naptha), which his father and brother founded 74 years ago, Soapmaker Fels put in a five-hour day, as usual, in his office across from the factory. Though he makes only soap and soap chips-and has never gone in for soap opera-Fels has steadily kept his company among...
While this is going on, Rosie is hijacked by a gang of deserters. The second half of the book is spent largely in playing a rough game of ring-around-Rosie with the hijackers. In the end, Rosie is recovered, Snowy & Co. help bust the deserters' racket, and Snowy and the Italian princess nave made a night of it without class distinctions...
...course, this would mean that most of those nice big stadia--like Harvard's--would go unfilled, an that in turn would mean fewer dollars. But a program of gradual deflation now could prevent a bust later. Any stockbroker can tell you about that, and it's not hard to imagine what would happen the day Notre Dame finally gets its corner on the player market. Big Ten would fall off 28 points in the first ten minutes' trading, and not even the million and a half dumped on the market by the Pacific Coast and Southern houses could hold...