Word: buckly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said his doctors: "It is a ticklish point and strictly a matter of opinion whether it is pneumonia." As Pennsylvania's deer-hunting season opened, Vice President John Nance Garner posed for photographers with a shotgun, set forth with nine Senators, shot down a 120-pound four-point buck, hoisted the carcass over his shoulders, posed some more until Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton cracked: "That deer's been photographed so much it's got Kleig eyes...
...disorder that had been used "ever since you were a harness bull." Once when a cantankerous office-seeker called him a buckpasser, Mr. Riley, an Oregon State Agricultural Collegeman, whose post-graduate work included truck driving, replied that "no son of a bitch can call me a buck-passer," and forthwith thrashed the fellow purple...
...that the New York Times was sponsoring its second National Book Fair, the Herald-Traveler its first Boston Book Fair. The Manhattan show, held on the 38th and 39th floors of the International Building in Rockefeller Center, could claim such celebrities as Fannie Hurst, Emil Ludwig and Pearl Buck. The Boston Fair had H. G. Wells as lead-off man, with Robert Frost...
...history, art, philosophy, and letters of this country, Harvard has gathered specialists who not only teach but also practice their calling. The student has the rare privilege of learning the history of this oldest living democracy from such men as Morison, Schlesinger and Buck, of reading its literature under Matthiessen, Murdock, and Jones, and of studying its changing thought under Perry and Hocking, themselves able philosophers. So far as pure academic knowledge goes, other fields are equally well covered; but their contributions to the student are infinitely smaller...
...16th birthday. Crown Prince Michael of Rumania was ceremoniously inducted into the Rumanian Army, of which he was titular commander-in-chief years ago when his father, buck-toothed King Carol II, was in exile. Witnesses of the ceremony were Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia. Among the gifts was a sleek Rolls-Royce sent by the Duke of Kent...