Word: buckly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have split, but the men haven't. John Garner does not want to fight with the President-not if he can help it. For the Party's sake he wants no open rupture. And as an old deerhunter he knows that you don't cut a buck's throat until it quits thrashing. Franklin Roosevelt is still much alive and kicking...
...Women like me ... are the safest members of society," declared Novelist Pearl S. (for Sydenstricker) Buck to her fellow alumnae of Randolph-Macon College. But women who do not employ their talents and their education, "they ought to be despised...
Suzie, on the other hand, had buck teeth and stringy hair and decided that she was not going to get married. But she was even in a worse fix than Jenny. If she continued to work as a waitress in the University until the retirement age of 65, contributing faithfully to her Annuity all the time, she would have a retirement income of approximately $14 per month in return for her long and loyal service...
...last year have been note for note copies of someone else. First, "One O'Clock Jump" (Basie), then "Wrappin' It Up (Fletcher Henderson), "Topsie" (Basie), and now "Sent For You Yesterday and Here You Come Today" (Basie). This latest copy goes to the extent of having Ziggie Elman play Buck Clayton's trumpet solo. It's a very good record, with fine piano by Stacy, and good blues singing by Johnny Mercer; but the rhythm section just can't stay with Basie's and no white man could ever sing the blues like "Rush" (Jim Rushing) can. Ella Fitzgerald sings...
...solidly repatriated after 35 years in China, Pearl Buck lives with her second husband and publisher, Richard John Walsh, on a 130-acre farm in Bucks County, Pa. She divides her great energies between tending nine children (one of her own, her husband's three, their adopted five) and writing the "books I want to write." Never waiting for moods -"you'd never get anything done if you did"-she writes about four hours a day, in terms of episodes, never halting in the emotional crises, but never going into one just before lunch. Declaring she would rather...