Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There he weekended last week, driving up from Philadelphia through Valley Forge Park. There he looked over his stable of superb working Percherons (sired by mighty Fallowfield Buck, a pedigreed stallion bought from his friend Lammot du Pont) ; Brandy, his big Virginia hunter, favorite of his stables; dozens of new calves; his herd's milking records. He lunched with kindly, pretty Mrs. Pew in the mansion-house-a broad, yellowstone Pennsylvania farmhouse with a vast fireplace, beamed ceilings, wide-board floors. Over the rolling, spring-green hills he looked and said, with his quick, humorless smile: "I get about...
...Garand argument with the Army's Chief of Ordnance Charles M. Wesson. Cagey, capable Major General Wesson stood up for the Garand ("the best semi-automatic rifle ever considered by the Army"). When Congressmen wanted to know who originally sponsored the Garand, General Wesson passed the buck to the Infantry. He also confirmed a rumor which reflects more grave ly on Army bureaucrats than on their new rifle. In the fourth year (1939) of Garand tests, the Army discovered a de fect so serious that a new barrel had to be designed. As of last Feb. 16, the Army...
...Frances Langford; Decca). Buck Benny Rides Again provides the month's sweetest...
...made a new picture-Forty Little Mothers (M.G.M.). So had Comedian Benny-Buck Benny Rides Again (Paramount). This coincidence was the more curious because both comedians' last pictures were no great shakes. Cantor's Ali Baba Goes to Town left 20th Century-Fox like a visit of the forty thieves. Benny's Man About Town suggested that some Benny fans would rather listen free to than pay to look at their hero...
...Buck Benny Rides Again hides Comedian Benny under a ten-gallon hat, takes him west to prove himself a he-man to attractive Ellen Drew. Otherwise it is just a Jack Benny radio program minus Mary Livingstone (Mrs. Jack Benny), and Benny addicts should find it just as entertaining. It has Rochester (Eddie Ander son), Benny's gravel-voiced, colored stooge; Carmichael (the polar bear); the disembodied voice of Fred Allen (whose mock feud with Benny weekly wows their camp followers); tunes, dances, a lot of fancy showmanship, girls and gags. People with a taste for deeper humor...