Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same deer In Atlanta, Ga., a game warden served a warrant on Col. W. B. Hutchinson, member of the Governor's staff, for having illegally shot five does. Col. Hutchinson claimed he had not noticed the does in the heavy underbrush, had fired at a buck, killing buck and does with one 12-pellet shotgun shell. Said he: "This has worried me for almost a month. It was purely an accident but it is far better that a judge should decide. ... I have seen a miracle...
...HOUSE DIVIDED-Pearl S. Buck...
Last year Mrs. Buck interrupted her labors on her Chinese trilogy, which began with the best-selling Good Earth and continued into Sons, to write the story of an elemental Chinese woman, The Mother. Now she has returned to complete the trilogy with a novel that many a reader will consider below the level of her best work...
Busiest Western star is Universal's Buck Jones. Since entering cinema, he has made 74 serials and features. A onetime rodeo performer, he lives on his San Fernando Valley ranch with his wife, whom he married on horseback, when they were both performing in a Wild West Show. Onetime cavalryman, aviator, trick-roper and auto-mechanic, Buck Jones made his cinema debut as an extra in 1917, became a major Fox star, at $2,500 a week. He now owns four horses, four dogs, three expensive cars, supports an So-piece band to represent his "Buck Jones Rangers...
...Texas a black buck known as Lead Belly murdered a man. He sang a petition to Governor Pat Neff and was granted a pardon. Back in the Louisiana swamplands, where he was born Huddie Ledbetter, his knife made more trouble. He was in State Prison at Angola when John A. Lomax, eminent ballad collector, stopped by last summer and asked the warden if he could please hear Lead Belly sing...