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  • And to fill in episodes from the Hemingways' half a dozen years together, she also drew from Hemingway's fiction of the period, especially "The Sun Also Rises," which was published to great acclaim in 1926 and which Hemingway dedicated to Hadley and their son, John later Jack, but familiarly known as Bumby.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

  • And to fill in episodes from the Hemingways' half a dozen years together, she also drew from Hemingway's fiction of the period, especially "The Sun Also Rises," which was published to great acclaim in 1926 and which Hemingway dedicated to Hadley and their son, John later Jack, but familiarly known as Bumby.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

  • His family had lived here briefly after his father mustered out of the navy and every few years he liked to drive by the little concrete block house they had occupied off Bumby Avenue, marveling at the huge oak that had grown from the buggy whip his father planted long ago in the sandy backyard.

    Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

  • On a lark he headed up Bumby Avenue toward Glenridge, his old junior high school in Winter Park.

    Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

  • He flees, acquires an odd friend, and manages to learn a bit about what's going on: The aliens of the saucer, the Orpolese Bumby and Ulla, want him to designate them as the producers for the Earth show, which is "watched" via hyperdimensional braintap by aliens throughout the galaxy.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • It is an important part of the area's history, butThe death records of nearly 80,000 people, including just about all of those with a downtown street named after them -- Bumby, Anderson, Parramore, Livingston and Robinson -- are in hand-me-down filing cabinets.

    Archive 2003-08-01 2003

  • Bumby,” Dolly said as she poured him a second cup of coffee, “if you want to stop by the funeral parlor before we go caroling with my choral group, we have to hurry.”

    Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark Ebook Christmas Set Mary Higgins Clark 2000

  • She was smiling, the sun on her lovely face tanned by the snow and sun, beautifully built, her hair red gold in the sun, grown out all winter awkwardly and beautifully, and Mr. Bumby standing with her, blond and chunky and with winter cheeks looking like a good Vorarlberg boy.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • There were no baby-sitters then and Bumby would stay happy in his tall cage bed with his big, loving cat named F.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • So the next morning I woke early, boiled the rubber nipples and the bottles, made the formula, finished the bottling, gave Mr. Bumby a bottle and worked on the dining-room table before anyone but he, F.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

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