Word: busting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready-made dresses, no cheap-but-good shoes." Most appreciated exhibit seemed to be the Aetna Life Insurance Co.'s so-called "Steerometer and Reactometer," a gadget on which visitors could test their fitness to drive a car. Unexplained last week was a heavily draped pool table. A bust of John D. Rockefeller Sr. stared at a bust of Mahatma Gandhi by Jo Davidson. On tables were perspective models of Boulder Dam and an artificially moonlit Triborough Bridge, with space reserved for a coming model of the New York Exposition of 1939. After this visitors are ready...
Back in San Francisco after frolicking at the famed annual outdoor tycoon bust of San Francisco's Bohemian Club. John P, Bickell, mining speculator and director of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, celebrated Wall Street bear, backer of the Merrill-Lambie Coronation flight, were walking down Post Street toward Union Square. Said Speculator Smith: "I feel like taking a trip." Replied Banker Bickell: "That's a great idea. I'll go anywhere you want ." At that moment they were opposite the St. Francis Hotel which houses the offices...
With words of praise and affection, a bronze bust was unveiled during the commencement of Alabama's Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute last week, disclosing the image of an aged Negro with benign eyes and wrinkled brow, wearing an old-fashioned coat, a wing collar and flowing tie. It was a likeness of George Washington Carver, and its presentation climaxed his long, remarkable, well-publicized career. Made by Sculptor Steffen Wolfgang George Thomas of Atlanta, it was paid for by George Washington Carver's admirers, black and white, mostly in $1 subscriptions...
...contributing factor to the success of the painting. Even in so simple a subject as a head and shoulders it proves to be ingenuously built. The head is set on a broad base of white, in the neck-cloth, which narrows down, like the pedestal in a bust, and is framed by the strong orange of the coat...
...Academy is Britain's greatest R. A., bearded, talented Augustus John. A steady contributor and a potent moneymaker for many years, Artist John has been too sick the past year to do any painting at all. In his honor Sculptor Barney Scale submitted a portrait bust whose bearded dignity was little spoiled by the fact that a prankster's lighted cigaret left in the mouth burned a spot that made Artist John look as though he were suffering from a virulent cold sore...