Word: buster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buster. Assistant U.S. Attorney General John Francis Sonnett ended a Justice Department guessing-game last week by taking over as antitrust chief from Wendell Berge, retiring to enter a Washington law firm. His successful prosecution of the John Lewis contempt case made him the Justice Department's brightest star. Handsome, young (34) John Sonnett likes tough, tricky cases. He will have plenty-44 of the U.S.'s biggest corporations are defendants in pending antitrust suits...
Chief consolations: Lee Tover's crisp camera work; Wallace Ford as a retired safe-buster; and the enormously proficient Mr. Bogart, who can just sit in a phone booth and make a long-distance call to St. Louis crackle with life and interest...
...self-portraits which now & then appeared in Delvaux's canvases looked even more out of place than the nudes; they exhibited the frozen face and faintly old-fashioned garb of a latter-day Buster Keaton, stalking gloomily amidst his dream harem or lifting his hat to a bare-backed girl friend, as in The Meeting...
...brushed past the men in the heavy rimmed glasses who were fluttering around the dirty-legged Radcliffe girl on the steps of Emerson. "Buster, things have changed," he said to one of the tweed jackets. The answer was an unseeing eye. "The New England Frappe Bar, men with women and General Education." Vag agreed with himself-- "Things have certainly changed." He elbowed his way through the perfumed corridor to audit a general education...
...Buster Keaton was about to be a comedy star again, for one picture at the very least. The sad-eyed Great Stone Face of the silents was making his latest comeback try in Mexico where audiences prefer their comedians pathetic. Turned 51 last week, Keaton had just finished his first Mexican picture, hoped soon to make another. He looked about the same as ever, and so did the picture: The Modern Bluebeard, or My Trip to the Moon. It had everything from life-adrift-at-sea to mistaken identity and ordeal by cops...