Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puritan offense, setting up the first touch-down with a long a end sweep in the first quarter and passing to right end Larry Corbett for the second score. Larry Goodale kicked the extra point after the first touchdown, which was scored by Ralph Davenport on a line buck...
...President had put Congress on a spot. Most leaders felt that the price-control mess was as much his fault as Congress'. For a year he had done little more than they to control inflation and they felt he had passed the buck to them. And now particularly, when they had just whipped the farm bloc in a bitter battle, the President's words were like the slash of a riding crop across the face. This held not only for his own supporters in Congress but for those Republicans who had fought beside them for the sake...
This week versatile, 53-year-old Howard Lindsay and puckish, 49-year-old Russel McKinley ("Buck") Crouse had three gold mines on Broadway: Strip for Action (which they wrote), Life With Father (which they adapted), Arsenic and Old Lace (which they produced). They had behind them three musicomedy successes (Anything Goes, Red, Hot and Blue, Hooray for What!). With no failures in six tries, they represent as big a money team as Broadway can boast...
Ohio-born Buck Crouse started off as a cub reporter in Cincinnati, long ago wound up his newspaper career as a columnist on the New York Evening Post. Besides writing books (Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives, Murder Won't Out), he was for five years press agent for the Theater Guild. Chided by his employers for not getting enough publicity for Maxwell Anderson's Valley Forge, he defended himself by reporting that he'd managed to get George Washington's picture on 2? stamps...
...Dean Buck will deliver the sermon on Wednesday morning...