Word: bustly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general counsel and chief lobbyist of Texas Co., onetime commander of the 56th Cavalry Brigade (Texas National Guard), longtime administrator of martial law in Texas; of a heart ailment; in Austin. Because of a political feud with Governor James V. Allred ("The first thing I'll do is bust 'General Jake' to a buck private in the rear ranks'"). Wolters retired last year just before Allred was inaugurated...
...with the panel, she has supplied a handbook of footnotes and acknowledgments to the museums from which Mrs. Thomas purports to have obtained cultural research. Thus, beginning at the extreme left in ancient Egypt, Queen Nefertiti (adapted from a bust in Berlin's Staatliche Museum) is to be seen putting on lipstick while her subjects do calisthenics. In ancient China, a 4th Century procuress braids a student courtesan's hair. Ladies of antique Greece are taking a shower bath while below them a pair of frizzled jades gossip in ancient Minoan. Next in this progress of lady Narcissists...
...works is the pediment on the Frick house in Manhattan, a poetic and satisfying solution of the problem of putting a man and a tree into a segment space. Other fine work: The Bronx's Columbus Monument, Albany's Mother's Monument, Richmond, Va.'s bust of Thomas Jefferson...
...before a bronze bust of Alexander Hamilton was unveiled atop the Palisades on the rock upon which he rested his head after being fatally wounded by Aaron Burr, a Manhattan autograph dealer announced he had acquired from the descendants of Burr's second, William P. Van Ness, the correspondence which led up to the duel. Included was Burr's opening letter wherein he told Hamilton: "I send for your perusal a letter signed Ch. D. Cooper. . . . Mr. Van Ness . . . will point out to you that clause of the letter to which I particularly request your attention." Hamilton...
...have been secret, but its proceedings leaked out in such detail that everyone who knows the cunning Finance Minister assumed that he had chosen this astute means of letting Japanese public opinion crystallize around the fact that it is now a case of rule or ruin, triumph or bust. In the suppressed opinion of numerous Japanese economists the further the Empire adventures into China the more fatally she overextends herself and risks economic collapse at home. To this Japan's militarists stoutly retort: "There is no such thing as an economic collapse. One can always go bankrupt and start...