Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Cora Buzzelle Millay. 67, mother of Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay (Renascence, The Buck in the Snow, The King's Henchman), Novelist Kathleen Millay (Wayfarer), Singer Norma Millay (in Manhattan's Intimate Opera); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Camden, Maine...
...that one of the students was able to amass a total only nine points lower. Most pleasing, however, to the editors of the paper is the fact that several of their taskmasters would fain avoid answering the questions put to them and attempted to pass the buck to a colleague...
...iron, steel, shipping & press tycoon; and Axel Soderstrom, 36, Swedish cinema producer, her companion last year on a round-the-world-motor trip; in London. Married. John Ringling art collector, railroad man, head of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, last of the five brothers; and a Mrs. Emily Haag Buck of Manhattan; in Jersey City. Best man: President Thomas Nesbitt McCarter of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Appointed. Capt. Albert B. Randall, master of S. S. George Washington: to be master of S. S. Leviathan and commodore of United States Lines' fleet succeeding Commodore Harold A. Cunningham, retiring...
Triangle shows must have a story, however remote from the general scheme of entertainment. This year's story concerns Wilbur Wilkins, the campus loafer (Joshua Logan), whose policies are op posed by Buck Heyward (Harold Tasker), the villain who wishes to awaken Prince ton from its beer-drinking lethargy. Vil lain Heyward also covets the affections of Miss Graham (Harry Dunham), daughter of Professor Graham (James Henry Breasted Jr., son of famed Orientalist Breasted of the University of Chicago). He is thwarted by handsome Bruce Pelham (James Stewart). The plot then skips 100 years by the simple method...
Daughter of a rich California family, Caroline was early made a globetrotter by her restless mother. In China she met Maggie, also from the U. S., and became her bosom friend. When Maggie married dashing Buck Dawson, British naval officer, Caroline followed her friend to England. While she watched the Dawsons' stormy married life Caroline took old Aristocrat Hugo as her fatherly lover. When she accidentally had a baby and Hugo's old wife died he wanted to do the right thing by her. To prevent him she married worthless Jock, gentleman rider and latent cad. He left...