Word: buckly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Dr. Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji, who legally changed his name to Buck Ruxton, strangled his wife and the pretty nursemaid who saw him do it, subsequently dismembered his victims and threw the bloody fragments into a Scottish ravine known as The Devil's Beef tub (TIME, March 23), British Justice last week hanged this murderer in the courtyard of Strangeways Jail, Manchester...
...leaflets, "Sweet Violet," as the penny press calls her, can be counted upon to draw large crowds of gawpers who mill about, tie up traffic for hours (TIME, April 15, 1935). Usually the crowd's sympathies have been with Widow Van der Elst, but the testimony in the Buck Ruxton case was too strong even for British stomachs...
Also, for three years from September 1: Paul H. Buck, assistant professor of History; Frederick B. Deknatel, instructor in Fine Arts and tutor; Wilbur J. Bender, instructor in History and tutor; Theodore Spencer, assistant professor of English; Robert G. Noyes, assistant professor of English and tutor; George K. Zipf, assistant professor of German; Warren K. Seyfert, instructor in education; and Hallowell Davis '18, associate professor of Physiology...
Arrested was a buck-toothed spinster of 36 named Mary Berd. Miss Berd has for some years been private secretary to one Zeida Schmellner onetime "Grand Rabbi" of Rumania before he arrived in the U. S. in 1925 amid the greetings of the acting Mayor of New York and a delegation of Jews. Inspecting the files of Miss Berd and Rabbi Schmellner last week, police and 25 accountants said they uncovered records of nearly $2,000,000 taken in as "loans." According to police who questioned both the rabbi and his secretary, the "racket" worked as follows...
...Country Beyond (Twentieth Century-Fox) is a James Oliver Curwood story containing a great deal of snow and a large St. Bernard dog named Buck, which has appeared in Call of the Wild and Little Lord Fauntleroy. More restful to the eye & ear than most cinemanimals, easy-going Buck is antisocial to the point of declining to take sides between his mistress (Rochelle Hudson) and a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman (Robert Kent) who has her in custody because she helped her father escape after being caught with stolen furs. When the girl endeavors to mush off through the snow, Buck...