Word: bucking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kind long enjoyed by manufacturers-were to be remedied by the passage of a new bill, containing an automatic, blanket copyright feature, framed by Representative Albert H. Vestal of that most profusely literary state, Indiana. Also in Washington to boost this bill were Novelist Will Irwin, Songwriter Gene (Follies) Buck, Laborite Matthew Woll, Hearstling Karl Kirchwey...
Skepticism as to the veracity of the story was discredited about six o'clock, when W. J. Buck '28 and H. C. Macomber '28 found unmistakable evidences that their room had been ransacked. Buck's watch was missing and Macomber's bureau drawers and closet were in a state of chaos...
...Cleveland, Abraham Cowley, Thomas Stanley, Sir John Suckling, Sir John Taylor, George Wither, Frances Quarles, Henry Vaughan, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, John Davies John Taylor, the Water-Poet, Giles Fletcher the Younger, Sir William Davenant, James Harrington, Richard Crashaw, Sir John Denham, Francis Hubert, Robert Anton, Thomas Nabbes, George Buck, John Hepwith, Samuel Rewlands, Nicholas Hooker, Alex Rosse, Thomas Carew, Robert Stapleton, Joseph Hall, Richard Lovelace, Ben Jonson, George Chapman, Richard Flecknoe, and Nicholas Breton...
...Outside of letter carriers and clerks and those directly concerned with the handling of the mails, the civilian employes of the United States Government include the largest number of loafers, time-killers and buck-passers that I have ever seen brought together under one banner...
Directors of the Pacific Oil Co. were Henry W. de Forest, E. P. Swenson, Charles H. Seger, Mortimer L. Schiff, James S. Alexander, Gordon M. Buck and Charles A. Peabody, all of Manhattan; Samuel Rea of Philadelphia and Paul Shoup 28 of San Francisco. It was incorporated in 1920 and now works extensive fields in California and in the Southwest...