Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years ago "Buck" Buckley was a University of Chicago footballer. Seventeen years ago he was president of Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's, American, Woman's Home Companion, Farm & Fireside). Ten years ago he was president and publisher of Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner. Since 1926 he has been a vice president of National City Bank in Manhattan. Chicago newsmen remember "Buck" Buckley as a loud-cursing tough-acting man who really is mild and human. He now lives on Manhattan's upper East Side in a brownstone house with a front door painted an Irish...
Devil Tiger (Fox) Director Clyde E. Elliott, who filmed Frank Buck's Bring 'Em Back Alive, has signed affidavits that every foot of Devil Tiger was filmed in the jungles of India, Siam, Indo-China and Malaya. His shot of a lion fighting a tiger (with the comment that lions are "nearly" extinct in Asia) may cause some quarrels. Many an animal expert believes that what lions there are in Asia are on the central plains, not in the southern jungles. Nonetheless Director Elliott's lion and tiger stage a good if indecisive fight, as do numerous...
...Negroes, all stained the same shade of brown, were natural and earnest. A handsome buck in evening clothes and a girl who might have been a Cotton Club entertainer, acted as end men, called out the scenes and acts and whatever comments Gertrude Stein had chosen to make. There were two Saint Thereses, called Saint Therese I and Saint Therese II. They both wore flowing cardinal costumes, appeared to have the same identity, except that one was a soprano, the other a contralto...
...Flowers and Dean Wannamaker - to adjust themselves to running a big university instead of a small college. Trinity College was governed by a board of trustees two-thirds of whom were elected by Methodist church conferences, one-third by alumni. When in 1924 the late Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke gave Trinity his name and some $40,000,000, the board was left untouched. But control of the Duke millions was put in the hands of a new board called the Duke Endowment. What most Dukemen wanted to know last week was whether the hand-picked board of trustees...
...Slavery Pro and Con," Mr. Buck, New Lecture Hall...