Word: buck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they have completed their education when they have wandered successfully through its intricacies and mazes. It is difficult to train a man or woman to work largely with his hands and senses in the care of the sick when he has been brought up in the present pass-the-buck atmosphere of the ordinary hospital mechanism for the diagnosis and care of the sick. The more work done by the student and the less by the teacher, the better the product. It is not what we know but what we actually use that counts in medical practice. Don't measure...
...Yours Truly." Gene Buck, after years and years under Ziegfeld, has stepped into the limelight of production with his own show, including Leon Errol and charging $25 admission for the first night. Actor Errol is famed in the theatrical profession for the way his legs wobble when he is supposed to be drunk. His present vehicle, a gargantuan jumble full of ridiculously costumed regiments of chorines, also wobbles. The distinction, of course, is that Mr. Errol's precarious underpinning is comical, whereas the production's is not. The hero (not Actor Errol) is head of the narcotic squad...
Excitedly the figure in the rawhide boots advanced: "You mean Black Jack* Pershing. Well, shake hands with your old private that used to peel potatoes for you. Yes, Sir, General-in the Sioux Indian campaign, buck private in Seventh Cavalry at Fort Niobrara. Black Jack himself! Yes, sir, all the ducks you want. I'll be danged...
...hard in the Great Smokies. Poet Heyward, who summers there, has tried a distillation of these three, achieving a glorious color but not much kick. Angel Thornley, the hillbilly preacher's girl, bathes at misty dawn beneath a rainbowed waterfall. Her father sets the sheriff on her lover, Buck Merritt, moonshiner, and marries her off to a mountaineer to make her an honest woman. After several years of cussing and slamming the door of their shack, the mountaineer blows himself up working on a road gang. Buck Merritt gets his pardon just then and comes back for Angel...
...Jones '30 Messenger G. W. Harrington '30 Herod D. L. Dickson '27 High Priest G. K. Bishop '27 Second Priest Charles Leatherbee '29 Herod's Son A. L. Black '30 First Old Wife Constance Templeton Second Old Wife Helen Field Mary Helen Lewis Gabriel Randita Edwards Joseph R. D. Buck, Occ. Company of Wise Men H. S. Meyer '30 Abbott Peterson Jr. '30 P. C. Sherbert...