Word: busting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, Heloise made $50 a week. In addition she was soon drawing regular fees modeling for Murray Korman, a theatrical and commercial photographer who admired her "fine character, brown eyes, and 34 in. bust." Only hitch in her quick rise was that Father Martin suddenly determined that she should finish her college course. When Heloise refused, he enlisted the aid of her friends Korman and Vallee (Yale '27) and with them engaged Heloise in a long-drawn argument. "Look at Katharine Hepburn," said Photographer Korman, "there was a girl with no looks but a college education and hasn...
...court again. "How fair have you been to me? When you think that over and learn the answer you'll have learned much about life. That's all now. I'm through." On his 100th birthday anniversary the City of Buffalo, N. Y. accepted a bust of Grover Cleveland which had been rejected 52 years ago because the sculptor had left off one of the coat buttons...
Touted as one of the new applied sciences that were going to bust the slump, air conditioning is still small potatoes. The industry's total sales last year were less than $60,000,000 compared with some $38,000,000 the year before. But the rate of growth in small airconditioning concerns like Trane has been impressive. In 1933 Trane's sales were a piffling $743,000. Two years later they were $1,700,000. For 1937 the company has set a quota of $5,300,000, which would be 75% better than...
...than 1) an ability to write smooth narrative; 2) an infectious British sentimentality. But such cat-laughs have been drowned out by the popular verdict. All but the most sea-green critics would agree that to have two novels simultaneously reproduced in the cinema* is equivalent to one plaster bust in the Hall of Fame. Last week Author Hilton put out his latest little number, the first to appear in three years. First readers found it about the same size and consistency as his famed Mr. Chips-with perhaps just a dash less salt in its makeup...
...still my child, just my little baby. He treats her just like always, except they sleep in the same room now." Said Father Winstead: "What God hath joined together let no man put asunder. I wouldn't put my soul in danger of hell fire to bust up the marriage of a couple of young 'uns that love each other...