Word: bustingly
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...willow that had long leaned over the tomb of Poet Alfred de Musset in Paris' Père-Lachaise cemetery crashed in a windstorm, fell against the tomb, broke the bust of the poet who had loved willows, and shattered the marble tablet bearing his verses that begin: "Mes chers amis, quand je mourrai, Plantez un laule au cimeti...
...short, the report has come home again that we are getting no place. Not only getting no place, but getting no place with spectacular success. We have realized this at various intervals already. It was common knowledge after the Greek bust, for instance, that the Allies were not only experts at losing battles heroically and gracefully, but that they were doing it every time...
London of the Bank Holiday, Whitmonday, while a gusty wind blew the cold rain down Downing Street. The next day the formal signing, with Churchill's gold-bound pen, took place in Eden's red-leather-chaired room under a bust of the younger Pitt...
...same little Jap, Douglas. Aircraft Co.'s gargoyle-like cartoon character, "The Tokio Kid." Created as part of the company's drive to reduce tool breakage and waste, the Kid appears on posters that show broken drills, cracked cogwheels, mixed-up rivets, piles of scrap. "Bust tool make soooo happy, thank you," is the main theme of his left-handed sentiments...
...Square. In a drab house in this drab square in a drab suburb of London, Nikolai Lenin lived and dreamed for a few months in 1903, when the Congress of Russian Social Democrats was convened in the capital of imperial Britain. One thing he never dreamed was that a bust of himself would one day be unveiled there. Last week...