Word: buster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sports Page: "Carney Pitches Midshipmen to Moral Vicory Over Supply School Officers." .. Courageously supported by a sterling infield, and what looked to this observer like a pennant winning battery, "Red" "Buster" "Big League" Carney pitched a band-up second inning ball game last Tuesday, almost winning his own fray with a .670 batting average. After seven (7) successive walks by a weary Supply School pitcher, the Middies rosily opened up to score five runs in the second inning. Another one-run rally in the fifth led the Carneyites to a moral victory in the seven inning thriller that made...
...Chicago Sun and was blocked by anti-New Deal Publisher Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune. The suit was handicapped from the start. Publishers tended to side with A.P. automatically. Some felt the Government's case was politically tainted; most had a deep-seated distaste for Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold, instigator of the suit...
...much for fashion news, now for the Society page. On page seven we have a picture of "Buster" Kearny, a ball-player if we ever saw one, who is planning a June wedding (the 5th), right here in Cambridge, with the ever-willing assistance of Mrs. Giard. Joining Buster in "the plunge" about the same time, will be Bob Edwards, Lee Shannon, Gerry Meyer, and Harry Davis. Harry recently "popped the question" through the facilities of AT & T. No doubt there will be more on the list of "missing or captured." It's gonna be a sad place for bachelors...
...atmosphere is a good deal better. And there is warm romantic melody in such songs as Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' and People Will Say, gay lilt in The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, humor in Pore Jud and I Cain't Say No, a roof-buster of an anthem in Oklahoma! If, compared to Lorenz Hart's at their best, Oscar Hammerstein's lyrics lack polish, so after all did frontier Oklahoma...
When Trust Buster Thurman Arnold last fall fixed a glittering eye on the railroads, he charged that they, through the Railway Express Agency Inc., were controlling and hindering the development of air express on U.S. airlines...