Word: buster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep Sea Chanteys and Sod Buster Ballads (Almanac Singers; two General albums). In the former, the vagrant, gusty Almanackers toss off Blow the Man Down, Blow Ye Winds High-O, etc. The other set is a random survey of such Americana as Ground Hog ("Up comes Sal with a snicker and a grin, Ground Hog grease all over her chin...
...dear dignity's sake, two jazzmen prepared to slough their nicknames. As opening wedge, "Pee Wee" Irwin demanded billing as George "Pee Wee" Irwin. "Muggsy" Spanier became Francis "Muggsy" Spanier. "Fats" Waller, "Cootie" Williams, "Wingy" Mannone, "Buster" Bailey stood...
...took a long white envelope from his left sock. He handed over photographs and drawings of rifles and a mosquito boat. (Sebold, as impassive as Buster Keaton, thoughtfully turned the photographs toward the camera.) Duquesne, talking about guns and bombs, pantomimed aiming...
...product of his years as a reporter. This style, studied closely, resolves itself into a trick of calling names more luridly than anyone else. He once said that the late Huey Long had "halitosis of the intellect"; that General Hugh Johnson had "mental saddle sores"; that when Racket-Buster Thomas E. Dewey announced his Presidential candidacy he "tossed his diapers into the ring...
...beaming, bumbling, balding President William Green hailed the Hutcheson decision, which so clearly made possible continuation of corruption and racketeering rampant in some A.F. of L. unions. But Trust Buster Arnold merely fitted another cigar into his mustache and went to work. Deciding that labor's new Siegfried Line could not be carried by assault, he moved underground. He had to go there. No one else in the New Deal wanted to sponsor a measure which attacked labor's rights even if they were wrongs...