Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commissioner Whalen, no less tall, handsome or fastidious than Administrator Campbell, exclaimed: "Buck-passer!" For courtesy's sake he held a conference with the city's five district attorneys and emerged to exclaim again, this time officially: "Buck-passer...
...Federal Government or wish to make a confession of your inability to effectively direct the activities of your department, for which a large proportion of a $36,000.000 appropriation is allotted, the admission should be made primarily to your superiors in Washington, instead of 'passing the buck' to the State law-enforcing officers. Your plan would necessitate increasing the police personnel by 5,000 men, costing the taxpayers of the City of New York a minimum of $15,000,000 per annum...
...rule tactfully on parliamentary procedure. In return he has a stone palace overlooking the Thames to live in (a wing of the Houses of Parliament), a salary of $25,000 a year, a further allowance for "costumes and effects" of $5,000, and an annual present of a fat buck and a fat doe from His Majesty's Master of the Buckhounds...
Holy Cross College (Worcester, Mass.) James M. Kieran, college president (Hunter) LL.D. Glen Buck, advertising...
...Lord Jesus, the repentance of sin, and the what-shall-I-do-to-be-saved religion. That is the attitude of the real oldtime Southern fundamentalist." To many a liberal delegate the Cannon attitude seemed close to Catholicism, from which Bishop Cannon acknowledged having occasionally gained inspiration. Organizing the Buck Hill Falls conference was almost entirely the work of one young man, Stanley Horlund High, editor of the Christian Herald, interdenominational weekly. Recently his magazine adopted colored covers. Its circulation, huge for a church periodical, hovers a little above...