Word: busting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoan's hero is Abraham Lincoln. There is a bust of him in the living room, as well as a photograph, a statuette and pair of bookends of him in Mr. Hoan's study. Mr. Hoan is built on the Lincoln line-a tall, lanky, restless Midwesterner with a high twangy voice, a shaggy mop of mouse-colored hair, a heavy mustache. He and Mrs. Hoan go to the cinema occasionally, spend a good many evenings playing bridge, usually with the same neighbor couple. Sometimes plump, jolly Mrs. Hoan plays at the Elks Club. She never misses...
...statement of regret, no message of condolence issued last week from William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who once won notoriety and Irish votes by promising to "bust King George in the snoot" if that monarch did not mind his own business. With the submergence of Chicago's blatant Mayor in 1931, the Irish Question seemed to have become virtually extinct in U. S. politics. Last week a dying gasp was heard in the U. S. House of Representatives...
...Josephus himself was never quite sure how he stood with himself. When his hated master, the Emperor Vespasian, died and his friend Titus came to the throne, Josephus' wave curled to its crest. Reading over the new edition of his famed book, the Jewish War, gazing at his bust in Rome's Temple of Peace, where only the greatest writers were immortalized, he could say to himself: "There are seventy-seven who have the ear of the world, and of these I am one." But when he let his adored Egyptian wife wean away their son to Hellenic...
...Houdon's marble bust of Voltaire, lent by the Comedie Franchise. ¶Watteau's Jupiter and Antiopc, from the Louvre. ¶ Mme Vigee Lebrun's portrait of Marie Antoinette, lent by Edward J. Berwind. Every number in the list shone with that French gaiety which 20th Century Parisians have lost. Not even in the court portraits was there a trace of the stolid respectability of a Gainsborough or a Reynolds. In not one of the French masters was there a trace of the social responsibility of a Hogarth...
Said Queen Mary, inspecting a bust of Home Secretary Sir John Simon: "I like...