Word: buckly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pianist, like all good ragtime composers, Harney appeared in Manhattan in 1896, thumping the keys at Tony Pastor's 14th-Street Variety Theatre while a tiny Negro named Strap Heel danced the buck-and-wing. At the time Harney's violently syncopated pianism, which according to contemporaries "could be heard for blocks around," was regarded as a passing fad. But it caught on so rapidly that by 1897 Harney was encouraged to publish his Rag-Time Instructor, first pedagogical treatise on the art of ragtime, now a collector's item...
Montreal, Mar. 3 -- Last evening about 400 McGill students at a meeting of the student society decided to rescind a former motion which opened the McGill Union to an address by the Communist speaker Tim Buck...
...meeting passed a motion which declared that Tim Buck could be heard provided that this could be "done in conformity with the law." Following this there was much discussion concerning the legality of the use of the McGill Union for the purposes of a Tim Buck meeting...
...majority felt that to hear Tim Buck speak would be quite legal, but the University Counsel had given his opinion that such a meeting would be in contravention to the Provincial Padlock Law which declares the propagation of Communism illegal in the Province of Quebec...
...Paul H. Buck will speak tomorrow night on "The Experiment of the Southern Confederacy," and Professor Edward K. Rand will deliver a "great author" series lecture on "Horace" Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock...