Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotel rooms. So did Thomasites. In the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel Reutherites and Thomasites came to blows. In the Ambassador Hotel, half a dozen mixed-up Reutherites fell upon one another, upsetting a mammoth potted palm. Three delegates from South Bend bounded from bar to bar, doing a buck & wing and chanting "Reuther, -Reuther, rah, rah, rah!" Boardwalk concessionaires, who had never seen anything quite like it, consoled themselves by clipping delegates 75^ for a bottle of beer...
...General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee -it was a rank case of insubordination. Last week, to show the Rome Stars and Stripes who was boss, he up & fired its publications officer, 35-year-old Major Hal Kestler. No Army regular but a country editor who had worked up from buck private, Major Kestler had talked back when the General called for censorship on the paper's. "Mail Call" column. And he had put his foot right in it by going over Lee's head to protest to Washington...
Just to please Li'l Abner, Capp had Gooch come through. From "Frank Half-buck, the great explorer," he heard about "Lena, the hyena from Lower Slobbovia." Because the very sight of her turned men's spines to jelly, she had to be (so far, at least) an offstage horror. The trouble she would make only handsome, happy Al Capp, who makes more than $150,000 a year out of such antics, could tell...
Established anonymously in honor of Capt. David A. Kelleher, Jr. '41, a Marine artilleryman who was killed in action on Tinian in July, 1944, a scholarship for an entering Freshman from Essex County has been included in the University's National Scholarship program, Provost Buck announced yesterday...
Pondleton Herring, associate professor of Government, tutor in the Department of Government, and secretary of the Graduate School of Public Administration, has been granted a leave of absence for one year beginning July 1, Dean Buck announced Tuesday. He will become an executive associate of the Carnegie Corporation at that time...