Word: bustly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slightly embarrassed. Irènée du Pont said that he "guessed Mr. Bates had made a bust," and then went on to talk about the part his company played...
Geneva then had leisure to contemplate a bust of President Arthur Henderson of the nearly defunct Disarmament Conference presented last week by a Hungarian newspaper which was almost alone in printing the full text of the speech which poor, neglected "Uncle Arthur" seized this occasion to make. Another complete fiasco was the speech of assassinated Chancellor Dollfuss' successor, dry, circumloquacious Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. For almost an hour he enunciated such involved platitudes as "this is no time for retrospective discussion as to whether Austria was bound to become what she now is, but I must urge that...
...Coffee Pot cook produced a study of morning sunlight filtering through a great tree in Central Park which a metropolitan art dealer snapped up. The ex-broker found peace in sculpture, modeled a striking bust of a jut-jawed, middle-aged tycoon. The secretary painted a smiling portrait of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on an old piece of bristol board. It has been purchased for the White House. The high-school boy drew automobiles. It got him a job as sports cartoonist on a Manhattan newspaper. The cripple turned out some slashing caricatures of the Four Marx Brothers which Warner Bros...
...industries once more into open country. Commander Hoover used exhortation. Generalissimo Roosevelt tried a more tangible method of as sault. In May he drew his plans. In June Congress approved them. In July organization began. Last week was launched the great housing drive whose unwritten slogan is "Recovery or Bust...
...shrewdly substituted the "foundation garment." At the beginning of Depression the Paris couturiers, sick of the tube dress, came to their rescue by raising the waistline, dropping the skirt. "Foundation garments" became a practical necessity. The corset-makers frankly admitted for the first time that women had not one bust but two breasts. Even then corsets were relatively clumsy affairs with elastic threads woven to stretch only in one direction. The elastic lost its snap if a corset lay on a store shelf for any length of time. Perspiration and a few washings had the same effect...