Word: buckly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just one thing might buck up China today against Japan: a fat loan from the West to the Nanking Government of harassed, high-strung little Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Last week Japanese officials were nervous as cats lest such a loan result from the visit to China of the Paitish Treasury's biggest mobile gun, Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. bland Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Exchequer, who is steaming this week toward the Far East...
...price to $2,200. She had her usual successes in London and Prague but in Budapest one night an audience astonished and dismayed her by booing and catcalling her Violetta in La Traviata. To newshawks she presently explained that she had caught a cold, announced that she could not buck Europe s prejudice against her high prices, canceled the rest of her tour. Since then, indefatigably carrying on her world concert tours, the great Galli-Curci had all but dropped out of the headlines until last fortnight when she slipped into Chicago's Henrotin Hospital and had her "potato" carved...
...School where, like his father, he ably mixed Christianity and athletics. He did not go to college. Instead, in 1915, aged 18, he married Mary Duke, who eventually fell heir to the millions of her father, Benjamin Newton Duke, brother of the late great Tobacco-Tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke. In 1931, after bearing him two children, Mary Duke Biddle divorced her husband, who shortly married Mrs. Margaret Thompson Schulze, daughter & heiress of the late Col. William Boyce Thompson, mining tycoon. With a superbly shaped pair of shoulders, lean, muscular Minister Biddle has been voted by tailors...
...supper of brown bread, baked beans, coffee. At the long tables all plates are turned down, while Christ at a little centre table asks a blessing. To Christ's right (facing the picture) sits Mrs. Sidney Atwood, president of Chatham's Church Association, with Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Buck (oysters). To the left beams Mrs. George Eldredge, association vice president. Just beneath Christ are Chatham's oldest inhabitant, 94-year-old Captain Sam Harding, and Dr. Northing, with arms folded. Behind the doctor are three Coast Guard captains. Next to Captain Harding are his son Lawyer Herman Harding...
...what every doubtful candidate requires, a good & loving wife. Notoriously he has the opposite, and last week ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece proceeded deliberately to embarrass her Gorgeous Georgios as much as she could by causing the following to be inserted among ordinary court notices at Bucharest, where her buck-toothed Brother Carol is King of Rumania...