Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Copley Plaza--There was no one around here but Parker Buck having dinner with his mother-in-law-to-be, up from New York for the weekend. One could see big plans afoot. Parker says this is the only way to make certain the answer will be "yes and soon...
Working in cooperation with Dean Buck and Dean Hanford, the committee will delve into the problems of reorientation and rehabilitation of returning servicemen, the application of the G.I. Bill of Rights to these students, and also the possibilities of the retention of the current trimestral calendar...
Groups of patriotic young ladies were clustered about the stairs at the Statler Army-Navy Officers' affair. Herbie Gold, among others from chase, found it necessary to decline offers from these ladies to share the buck forty-eight expenditure for an evening of dance and laughter. Knowing these fellows would only lead to one conclusion; Fargo and the Coop have been very successful once more...
Dragon Seed (M.G.M.) is a kind of slant-eyed North Star (TIME, Nov. 8). A two-and-a-half-hour picturization of Pearl Buck's best-selling novel (TIME, Jan. 26, 1942) about China at war. Often awkward and pretentious, it nevertheless has moments of moral and dramatic grandeur...
...Parker Buck found the Statler quite agreeable. He spent the evening maneuvering with a second lieutenant for the attentions of an attractive sultry Bostonian and won out even against these odds of flashing rank...