Word: bustingly
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...most talked about of classic gifts is an endowment fund established to clean pigeon droppings off a statue. At their twentieth reunion, the class of 1883 presented the college with a bronze bust of James Russell Lowell, class of 1838, to be placed in a niche on Massachusetts Hall, with a stone seat in front...
...Dust the Bust...
Four years later some classmates returned to Cambridge and were horrified to see pigeons were making a mess of their gift. So in 1908 the class raised $250 to clean the bust and seat below: "The class desired that the College should not be out to any expense in future in keeping the bust, pedestal, and seat clean and in good order...
...Elsa Schiaparelli watched her picket-thin mannequins parade her creations, then cried, "Stop the show. Where are the bosoms? Where are the hips?" To illustrate, she took a jacket from a model and tried it on herself. When it failed to close across madam's own well-developed bust, she said: "See what I mean? Designers keep forgetting that women are females, human beings with legs, bosoms, hips. I am sick of the cardboard silhouette. I am cutting out the frills, the whalebones, the stiff flounces, all that inhuman nonsense...
...over 9 billion pesos, and have the right to say my conscience and my hands are clean." Many Mexicans, convinced that only Bermudez keeps Pemex from ruin by political grafters and grifters. hope that he will be asked to stay on. In Bermudez' office sits a life-size bust of President-elect Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, but all Bermudez says is: "My commission from President Aleman expires the last day of this month. That's all I know. I'm not saying one word about the future...