Word: buck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Duff Cooper was doing his best to attract recruits into the service last week. The base pay of the British soldier has been raised from 27? to 50? a day about ⅔ as much as the U. S. buck private.' If his ability to polish boots and clean pipes wins him a job as an officer's servant, he can count on another $5 a month, and if he stays in the army long enough to win the stripes, red sash and silver-headed cane of a sergeant, he can earn more than $17.50 a week...
...Buck Private, Company...
...brilliant academic way to Edinburgh in 1927 and in this dingy grey and bleak seat of Scottish learning seduced a waitress by the name of Isabella Van Hess. Student Ratanji was then using the name "Gabriel Hakin," but on marrying his waitress he proceeded to become legally "Buck Ruxton." Soon, as Dr. Ruxton, he became a popular and prosperous gynecologist who delivered hundreds of well-to-do Lancaster mothers and had last week a fine snug house in Dalton Square...
...other points with huge bags loaded with liquor. In order to get through O.K., they'd dress like preachers, bums, and ambassadors. A redcap in not allowed to charge a passenger for services--take the tip and shut up! is the law. But bootleggers could be hijacked for a buck or more, if you were sure...
...didn't believe me; but when we arrived on Sugar Hill and I opened his cab door he gave me a buck and his card. On it was engraved: Professor Paul J. Sachs, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University...