Word: buckely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FIRST WIFE, and Other Stories-Pearl S. Buck-John...
...writer of modern times has staked a claim to a bigger tract than Authoress Buck. For U. S. readers, at least. China is her acknowledged province; so far she has the field to herself. The Good Earth, which won her the Pulitzer Prize (1931) and made her name a household word in the U. S., was a best-seller for 24 months-not equalled by any other U. S. novel. Says Introducer Richard J. Walsh: "It seems clear that no native Chinese, however schooled in English prose, could have written of his own people as Mrs. Buck has written...
Yale University Authoress Pearl Sydenstricker Buck . . . . . . M.A. Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth . . . . . . . . M.S. Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist . . . . . . . . .M.S. Ernest Fremont Tittle, liberal Methodist preacher of Evanston, Ill. . . . . . . . D.D. Director Herbert Eustis Winlock of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Hugh Smith Gumming, Surgeon General of the U. S. . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Harold Willis Dodds, President-elect of Princeton University. . . . . . . . . . LL.D. William Mills Maltbie, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...driving through Delaware at night this summer and find the highways glimmering with bobbing lights, do not mistake them for fireflies. They will be pedestrians. Last week Governor Clayton Douglass Buck signed a bill making it a misdemeanor for a citizen to tramp the highways after dark unlit by flashlight or lantern...
...Columbus, Ohio last week met 1,500 U. S. Presbyterians in their annual General Assembly. Fundamentalists had come bringing threats, chief among them Dr. John Gresham Machen of Philadelphia who last month stirred up the row leading to the resignation of Author Pearl Sydenstricker Buck as a mission teacher in China (TIME, May 8). Since then Dr. Machen had flayed Mrs. Buck for an "antiChristian propagandist,'' excoriated the Presbyterian Foreign Missions board for its "Yes-&-No" attitude, called everybody names including even much-revered Board Secretary Robert Elliott Speer whom, by implication, he called "dishonest" and "evasive...