Word: bustingly
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...crash caught Matt with his pants down. Soon there was no work for aristocrats of labor. Puzzled, angry, discouraged, Matt had a final quarrel with his wife, a bust-up with the local of his union, and took to the road again. This time it was not so much fun as when he was younger. He wandered all over the country, taking any job he could get, bumming most of the time, gradually completing his education. Once, with another desperate bum, he held up a gas station, an A. & P. store. But Matt did not become a criminal: adversity...
...Jean Antoine Watteau. Prize of the collection is The Armada Jewel, a minuscule painting sent by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Francis Walsingham, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for his help in outfitting the English fleet that defeated Spain. The jewel's face bears a gold relief profile bust of the Queen. Inside the reverse side is another portrait of Elizabeth by Nicholas Milliard. On the back is an enamel picture of the Ark, floating safely on a calm...
Through the generosity of Gabriel Wells the University has acquired a marble bust of Rene Descartes, by Giovanui Loronzo Bernini, an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period. The statue is now on exhibition in the loggia on the second floor of the Fogg Art Museum. The statue was presented in the memory of William James...
...bust, executed about 1646, was formerly in the Lord North collection and the Paget collection. Bernini was known especially for the characterization and realistic power of his portrait statues...
...considerably since the days of Aristophanes and Sheridan." He is further to be congratulated upon his escape from picayuno technicalities in deciding that "it is unnecessary for me to determine the extent of the attire. . . If these were the ones they displayed heads and more or less of the bust. They were slightly clothed...