Word: busting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since our last appearance in print many and great things have happened in the lives of local stalwarts. The heralded "Beer Bust" came off in record time with everything in sight, including twenty-four cases, consumed in one hour and ten minutes--somewhat of a Distinction for our guzzling class after the slow performances of the two less talented classes which preceded us in the same line of endeavor. Individual honors for consumption and antics were carried off by a member of a set of twins who are locally famous for their literary efforts. He was, however, closely followed...
Fistfuls from Firehouse. Because Check is played with a 48-card pinochle deck (i.e., two ordinary 52-card decks with all cards below the nine discarded), every deal is bound to provide a fistful of aces, kings and queens. Bridge players, accustomed to holding a number of "bust" hands during an evening of play, will perk up at such a splash of face cards. Then, too, whereas bridge games often drag out as hands are passed because they are too evenly distributed, almost every Check deal gives either side a chance to bid and make a contract...
After the ensuing stampede, and after promising to make a park of the ruined lot and put a bust of Mr. Wickel in it, Edwards presented mild, bespectacled, disappointed Mr. Wickel with a check for $1,000. But there was no bank name on the check. Nevertheless, Mr. Wickel finally cashed it, at his own bank:-and received $1,000 in Confederate money. Asking for something more negotiable, he got a 1,400-lb. safe containing a little less than half of a $1,000 bill...
Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, vacationing in the U.S. before leaving for the Pacific, received several new attentions. At the University of New Mexico, he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters; in Manhattan, Sculptor Jo Davidson completed his bust of Pyle; in Washington, Sculptor Max Kalish prepared to do a statue of Pyle for the Smithsonian Institution's Living Hall of Washington TIME...
...Henry de Montherlant, arrogant, aristocratic novelist, enraged patriotic Frenchmen with his book Solstice de Juin, turned up for the opening of his new play, Reine Morte, with a bust of himself under his arm and a pocketful of medals struck with his profile. All Montherlant plays have been banned...