Word: buckoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...condition as hopeless as the five shillings in his pocket. Slowly, as the Irish say, it is "let on" that Peter was a "dismantled Roman wreck," having studied unsuccessfully for the priesthood; that his father was a seaman, his mother a pious termagant, his brother a "great, rearing, clumsy bucko." Why was Peter in jail? The question involves a real novelist's art-the reverse of the whodunit, which is to disclose the crime and disguise the motive. Halfway through the book, when all the motives are clarified, Peter's crime is disclosed: he has killed a woman...
London peopled a whole world with semibarbarians-bucko mates on tramp steamers, sealers in the North Pacific. Seattle waterfront toughs, stiffs riding the rods of Western freight cars-all larger than life, and, because of that, something less than real. This scissors-and-paste collection of his work (with the important dogs missing) is a valuable book for U.S. readers -who have begun to forget London's parables of violence, partly because they see the realities of violence all over the world...
...wall. For celebrities and tourists alike, Tia Bates had an unbeatable formula: good American cooking, soft beds, plenty of hot water and a serene atmosphere. And when things went wrong or servants fouled up the serenity, the boss lady could raise the roof and cuss like a bucko mate...