Word: busting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what The Mikado loses on the roundabouts it never quite makes up on the swing. The audience got what it came for only when the Three Little Maids from School strutted what they had learned there, when the Mikado (Edward Fraction) bust out into a cakewalk, when the flowers that bloomed in the spring gave way to a jamboree that had nothing to do with the case, but proved mighty, mighty tra-la. The Federal Theatre boldly moved The Mikado from Japan to the South Seas. It should have been bolder still and moved it, shag and shaggage, to Harlem...
...Harry Kurnitz, longtime mystery writer for pulp magazines, who writes under the false-whiskery pen name of Marco Page and the influence of Dashiell Hammett. His characters first appeared last spring in a spade-calling mystery novel, Fast Company, in which the main victim was poetically conked with a bust of Dante. Last summer Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice played them first for cinema in MGM's fumigated version. In Fast and Loose, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell show up as the likeliest pretenders to the places of William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man tradition...
...effort is reminiscent of the gentleman who, observing Apollo's Hyperborean journey, declared emphatically, "I shall compass this in terms of Quately's logic, or bust." He bust...
...smell of Norway's fishing boats and pine forests out of Grieg's nostrils. His music, delicately flavored with the weedy condiments of Norwegian folk song, soon won him world fame. By the time he was 60 even the Central Europeans admitted he was good, placed a bust of him in the famous Gewandhaus hall of fame in Leipzig. Even the concert-shy man-in-the-street knew and whistled melodies from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite...
Among the horse-and-dog lovers of Fayette County, Build flourished. For his heroic statue of Guy Axworthy, famed trotting stallion, he was reported to have received $15,000. He made a bust of a dead superintendent of schools, of the founder of the Lexington Leader, statues of several champion great Danes, of a trotting mare and sulky. Then he disappeared...