Word: busting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white dry dandruff . . . must read about it in the Encyclopedia . . . Smoking too much makes me nervous . . . Arose at 9 o'clock ... I think freckles ... are due to some salt of iron [in] low state of oxidation ... A little dog . . . just came [in], face as dismal as a bust of Dante . . . dinner at 3 p.m. ... I eat too quick . . . Commenced reading . . . don't like Dickens-don't know why ... I must read Jane Eyre . . . Played a little on the piano . . . badly out of tune . . . Sardines [for supper] . . . could scarcely swallow them . . . This is Sunday ... I will read...
...disagreeing with one another over just what was happening. But the nation's farmers-the people most immediately affected-thought they knew the score. They were sure that their golden era of super-high prices was over, but they did not think they were in for a frightful bust. They took their losses with stoicism or good cheer...
...realizing that the town must not become self-conscious about its representative nature; his secret leaks out; the town becomes a tremendous sensation throughout the nation; it has a boom; in the process, it loses its head and its representative quality; this last is discovered; the town has a bust; Stewart pulls out a gimmick providing for a return to normalcy; Stewart marries Jane Wyman, a newspaperwoman who has been involved throughout. A great many other things happen during this march of events, such as a basketball game, a Saturday night dance in a high school gymnasium, and a genteel...
...piercing eye, people thought he might be a gypsy. He had arrived in Manhattan at 17, with one Mr. Smith who set him up as a silhouettist on Broadway. Admission to the "Hubard Gallery" (50) had entitled visitors to "see the Exhibition and obtain a correct Likeness in Bust cut by Master Hubard who without the least aid from Drawing Machine or any kind of outline but merely by a glance at the Profile and with a pair of Common Scissors instantly produces a Striking and Spirited Likeness...
...almost as strange as his beginning. At 46, Hubard became obsessed with the notion that Houdon's marble bust of George Washington ought to be cast in bronze. He built his own foundry, spent seven years and all his savings to make six reproductions of the bust. At the start of the Civil War he tried to recoup his losses by turning his foundry into a Confederate arsenal. He began experimenting with explosives and blew himself...