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Word: buxomly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your most interesting account and genealogy of "Bull" Durham in TIME, July 4, under Animals does not take into account a story which has circulated in these parts since the advent of the "lugubrious-passioned buxom Holstein cow" into the tobacco advertisements. This mid-western story is that one of the old style "Bull" Durham ads appeared on a Minnesota highway just across a pasture fence in which pasture a Swede farmer pastured his Holstein herd of fine dairy cows. Soon the farmer found a decline in his milk supply, later it was discovered that his cows spent their daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...until last month had Bull Durham encountered Romance. Then suddenly 35,000 billboards throughout the land proclaimed the news. Advertisements showed a picture of him pasted on the side of a barn. Before the picture, big eyes ogling, tongue hanging out in an expression of lugubrious passion, stood a buxom Holstein cow. This whimsy was captioned "Her Hero." Motorists grinned. Advertising men, seeing in it a burlesque of sex-appealing tobacco advertisements, thought it smart. But to the churchwomen of Willow Glen, a suburb of San Jose, Calif., it was the epitome of bad taste, an affront to California womanhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Hero Censored | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...good Presidents & bad the U S has had since the Civil War Ohio has mothered seven, all Republican ? Last week the busy buxom State of Ohio was again pregnant with presidential possibility, this time Democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: June & Duty | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...King Albert pardoned Shooter de Rosa who has been in jail two and a half years. Unofficially both the Belgian Court and the Italian Court announced that King Albert exercised his power of pardon by request of his son-in-law, Crown Prince Umberto. H. R. H. and his buxom Belgian wife (Princess Marie José) now live in an ornate, expensively refurbished palace at Naples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Two-Year Plan | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...Petite Sarah Palfrey of Boston, seventh ranking woman player of the U. S.: the Bermuda tennis championship, beating buxom Betty Nuthall of England 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 in the final, at Hamilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Mar. 7, 1932 | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

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