Word: busting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When George V learned last week that William Hale (I'll-bust-King-George-on-the-snoot) Thompson had been defeated for re-election as Mayor of Chicago (TIME, April 13), His Majesty chuckled...
...second day of the festival the old Major's bust was taken out of the Symphony Hall lobby, set on the stage in the centre of a floral display. Instead of music, speeches were the meat of the afternoon, with the Major's widow, a little old lady of 93, one of the guests on the stage. Professor Bliss Perry of Harvard, the Major's friend & biographer, recalled many an interesting fact: Henry Lee Higginson went only a part of one year to Harvard although he was described by President Hadley of Yale as the "ideal Harvard man." He gave...
Intimate Merger. A year ago the president of Associated Apparel Industries, Inc. ("the Bust Trust") was elated at the change in fashion which demanded that women wear "foundation garments" of which his firm is one of the biggest makers. His enthusiasm was justified, for Associated sales during the year ended Nov. 30, 1930 exceeded $15,000,000, making a new record for the company. Subsidiaries contributing to this performance included: Nature's Rival Co., Venus Brassiere Co., Parisform Brassiere Co. Some of Associated's better-known trade-names are College Girl, Modart, Venus, Solitaire, Last week...
Copper 10-centesimo: bust of St. Peter; Papal Arms...
Midnight. Last week Theatre Guild subscribers filed reverently through the Guild Theatre's handsome lobby, up the stairs past the bust of George Bernard Shaw and bumped right into a murder melodrama. For Midnight relates the tale of a law-abiding florist (Frederick Perry) who, as foreman of a jury, has sent a woman to the electric chair for killing a man. At the execution, Midnight, while newshawks are invading his home on one pretext or another to catch his reaction, the florist's daughter (Linda Watkins of June Moon) staggers in with a revolver and the tale...