Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago last week the Society for the Improvement of Children's Programs was hopefully suggesting to neighbors' boys & girls that Bob Becker's Dog Chats and the Singing Lady are as entertaining as the thunderous radio exploits of Buck Rogers. In Columbus, Ohio the members of the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education and the Institute for Education by Radio met in joint convention to wring their hands over the bloody adventures of Dick Tracy, the struggles of Little Orphan Annie, the blood-curdling mysteries of Chandn the Magician. Burden of the complaint was that Junior...
...murky evening, a young lady is walking unescorted through a city street when an evil-looking Negro buck darts toward her, slugs her over the head with a rock, seizes her purse, darts away. Up to the curb glides a La Salle limousine. Out of it steps a gentleman in full evening dress and top hat. With a few nimble bounds, he overtakes the fleeing Negro, pinions him fast. Then from his pocket the gentleman whips a gleaming pen knife. Deftly he slits the Negro's throat from ear to ear. Returning to the young woman...
Luke is the son of Buck Bishop who had been as a young man "a great fighter, a notorious terror, with a reputation that had never died." He instructed Luke in the profession of poaching, trained any young man who could box or run, kept a small spot of land, and made fine workmanlike shoes. He ran fourteen miles with a bullet in his groin, eluding a gamekeeper, dismist Luke's offer of assistance scornfully, and died unlacing his boots. Luke's mother, at the beginning of the story threatens to strike the bum-bailiff who has come to eject...
...shrink away; though the story reeks of horses it is not horsy. Humorous, charming, "National Velvet" is a little masterpiece of English sentiment. Velvet was 14, going on 15, and looked "like Dante when he was a little girl." She was skinny, and wore a painful plate for her buck teeth. Her three older sisters were beauties; her little brother was a caution (his most prized possession was a bottle in which he collected his spit). Her father was a butcher, a sensible sort of man; her immense mother had swum the English Channel at 19, had now relapsed into...
...with Sunday comics by special courtesy of the Post. After one edition the Post hastily killed its own announcement. Reason : Editor Patterson had quietly removed the disputed features, had substituted Brick Bradford, Mandrake the Magician, Rose O'Neill's Kewpies and an animal feature by Frank Buck, rushed to her from Manhattan by air express...