Word: busting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believes that the "magic touch of par" corrupted business in the booming 20s. "Par," he says, "is just as destructive on Pennsylvania Avenue as it was in Wall Street. Par goes to men's heads. When you see the bust of Napoleon on the desk of a businessman, you'd better get out quick and sell him short. The same goes for Government officials...
None of this need worry depositors whose accounts are guaranteed by FDIC. But it is plenty to worry FDIC, which will have to make good future losses; something to worry the Government which is morally obligated to keep FDIC from ever going bust; something to worry business which has to support the Government...
Visitors to New York City this summer may banquet on fine art until they bust. The Metropolitan Museum has lavished its space, taste and scholarship on "Life in America" as artists have seen it through 200 years (TIME, May 8). The new, glassy Museum of Modern Art holds a festal exhibition of "Art in Our Time" (TIME, May 22). At the World of Tomorrow, 1,214 examples of "American Art Today" show contemporary ferment among U. S. artists; not far away are hung 400 serene successes by Old and still Older Masters (TIME, June 26). To assemble all this took...
...birds and the precise aerodynamics of their flight. Eventually he hopes to sober up a tendency to melodramatic color. He turns out one painting a week as a fair average, usually sells out his annual show. His mother, now Lady Kennet, an accomplished professional sculptress whose new bust of Bernard Shaw was also shown at Ackermann's, thinks her son is "preposterously prosperous...
...little numb as he climbs into the front seat of the roller-coaster. He mutters something about a coward dying a thousand times and plasters a grin on his face. A bell rings, somebody screams, and the cars begin to move. Seven times or bust! Vacation...