Word: becks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beck v. Versailles. Vastly different was the impact on the League of Nations last week of that stern, ramrod-backed bean pole in human form, Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck. Only when the craze for yo-yo tops struck Warsaw two years ago was Colonel Beck seen really to unbend, pumping his yo-yo up & down on its string with pleased dexterity. In the past year the Colonel has been on dangerous ground and he trod it firmly last week...
Cartoonist Billy De Beck never donned baggy trousers and a putty nose to exhibit himself as Barney Google. Cartoonist Fred Opper never publicly appeared in the Quixotic guise of Happy Hooligan. But last week Cartoonist Otto Soglow, elaborately garbed in the beard, crown and ermine of his Little King, made a coast-to-coast goodwill tour on a TWAirliner to celebrate the debut of his famed New Yorker comic strip in Puck, the 16-page funnypaper published weekly in Hearst-papers throughout...
...Reno for New York, he had with him a chauffeur, a valet, a dietitian and a present from Dorothy Dunbar, Emily Post's Book of Etiquette, which he read when he was supposed to be doing roadwork. Like Carnera, Baer has been sued by a waitress, one Olive Beck, whose claim of $250,000 for breach of promise he settled for $5,500. Last year he was divorced from Dorothy Dunbar. After defeating Max Schmeling, Max Baer played in vaudeville, was master of ceremonies in a nightclub, performed on the radio, acted in MGM's The Prizefighter...
...Hagerstown, Md.. races, the pencil of one D. H. Beck ran down the list of entries, stopped short beside the name of a two-year-old filly. On her nose Beck slapped a $1 bet. First across the line galloped his choice. Back home where his wife was trying out a new cook went D. H. Beck with $404.20 profit from his bet on Filly Trycook...
...Student's Exchange, in Beck Hall, is now prepared to instruct you in the art of cycling methods that even Watson and Pavlov would approve of. Oddly enough, they tell us that it is most effective with the gentler sex. The way that the lessons are arranged reminds of that famous savior of wall-flowers, Arthur Murray...