Word: buckly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cincinnati's Charter movement. At Yale (Class of 1918) he was football tackle, basketball captain, Phi Beta Kappa, winner of the Francis Gordon Brown award for "good scholarship and high manhood." While his classmates were busy getting into officers' training camps, Taft enlisted as a buck private in the Army, got married before sailing for France. Returning a first lieutenant, he finished a Yale law course in 1921, stayed on through football season as a line coach. Back home in Cincinnati, he teamed up with his elder brother Robert Alphonso in the practice of law. Meanwhile his family...
Divorced. Mrs. Emily Haag Buck Ringling; by Circusman John Ringling, 71, last of the five founding brothers; in Sarasota, Fla. Grounds: nagging, "an ungovernable temper...
...bull elephants are extremely rare in U. S. circuses and zoos. Some months ago Director Edmund Heller of San Francisco's Fleishhacker Zoo decided to try breeding his four cow elephants, began looking for a mate. He wrote to famed Animal Collector Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck, who had supplied three of the cows, and both searched in vain until the Al G. Barnes Circus announced that it would be glad to give San Francisco a bull which had be come a nuisance because of his uncertain temper. He was a 6-ton, 9-ft. high...
Earlier in the week potent Chancellor Chamberlain delivered to London's Conservative 1900 Club a speech which was generally considered so pro-Italian, so anti-Ethiopian that it watered down almost completely the British National Government's formerly firm resolve to buck up the League of Nations and enforce its decisions...
...Presbyterians for the next year, the comuiissioners gave 126 votes to a Machenite Fundamentalist, 251 to a Chicago preacher who was supposed to represent the rank & file of the ministry, 508 to an administration wheelhorse of a type that Presbyterians have docilely accepted in recent years-Rev. Dr. Henry Buck Master, 64, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Pensions since 1919. A portly, florid Princeton man (1895) who held pastorates in Buffalo and Fort Wayne, Ind. and went to War as a stretcher-bearer, Dr. Master lives affluently on Philadelphia's Main Line, attends the swankest Presbyterian Church...