Word: bustingly
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...last able to explain to them the curio which has long adorned their mantelpiece - "Professor Caswell tells me this damn thing happens to be a Ubangi symbol of fertility." Another woebegone figure, a chicken farmer, is discovering the literal truth of the description on his chicken feed, "Lay or Bust." The stubborn hens are exploding all over the place. There is an angry hound who, with a great ripping of one pants leg, yanks a man into a room where two ladies are seated ("I divorced him years ago, but our retriever keeps bringing him back"). And there...
...45th floor of Manhattan's G.E. building, he had a sunlamp which he turned on whenever he felt a sneeze coming on; a framed copy of Edgar A. Guest's It Couldn't Be Done ("and he did it"); a television set. He took a plaster bust of Lincoln with him to his Washington office...
...thousand students daily under the vaulted arches of her nave. Hardly a meal passed without some outburst of excitement. Bloody fights among the colored waiters. Class wars, and demonstrations against the constant stream of sightseers who thronged the galleries to "watch the animals eat" served to hallow the bust-lined walls. Many were the wild tales that passed about of stray dogs which disappeared into her kitchens never again to see the light...
...stopped whistling in the dark room. The once-bust studio has two grade-B pictures, made on what Hollywood calls a shoestring, which are outgrossing nearly every A-picture in a boom year...
Abel Bowen's best, laid out in aid of a Philadelphia hair "manufactory" (wigs, transformations, etc.), was a woodcut of a forbidding female whose obviously enormous bust was well upholstered in yards of frills, and on whose head hair was heaped in a grotesque, kinky pile...