Word: busted
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...portraits of Stalin. Kim's office is a real-life equivalent of the one used by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator. Rich with gaudy rugs and expensive furniture, it is dominated by an enormous mahogany desk which is flanked on the left by a foot-high plaster bust of Kim, on the right by a bust of Stalin...
Stop Short? In Washington a State Department spokesman neatly summarized the U.S. position. Said he: "The whole [Korean] operation would be a bust if we stopped at the 38th parallel. If we stop short we might as well have stayed out to begin with...
Despite the materials shortages of World War II, Gossard kept its sales up by such new products as the high-backed "curvette" for women war workers, to ease the strain of long hours in factories. When the New Look came in and dressmakers talked blithely of the "natural bust," perhaps without a brassiere, Gossard quickly added: "The natural rounded bust, but with an uplift...
...days and almost 300 miles later, the bust turned up in Cambridge. First it went to Fogg Museum. But officials there would have nothing to do with it. But, as a consolation prize, the statue got to pose with John Harvard in the Yard...
Then, snubbed by Harvard, the bust moved to M.I.T., where it wound up on the steps of Tech's Walker Memorial Hall. There an art-loving janitor took it in tow, and presented it to puzzled M.I.T. officials, who had absolutely no idea where Charles Tallman came from, who he was, or what to do with...