Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snake collection or when a circus man wants a small elephant to do balancing tricks, he tells a professional animal catcher about it. The animal catcher takes a trip to the native habitat, brings back one which is the exact size and shape required. For 18 years, Frank Buck has been going to Asia on such missions, has been furnishing U. S. cities with prize exhibits, "firsts," only animals of their kind in captivity, etc., etc. Fortnight ago he published a book telling what an animal catcher ex-periences.- Animal Man Buck's headquarters in Asia are at Singapore...
...alive. The Sultan of Johore, himself one of the greatest living shikari, told him about a tiger who had killed and eaten a coolie on one of the rubber plantations. Man-eating is an acquired taste among tigers. Usually the animals find the smell of a man unpleasant. Animalcatcher Buck dug a ditch, caught the animal which nearly scrambled out because it was too big for the ditch. It had to be lassoed like a Texas steer, pulled up to the mouth of the hole while a box was slipped under it. This specimen is now in Longfellow Zoological Park...
...Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance. During this period she married Harry Brown, musi-comedian, by whom she had a son who died at the age of four. About that time she left the stage, joining the staff of the Daily News in 1890. Her second husband, one Frank Howard Buck, divorced her in 1916 on the grounds of cruelty. Most fantastic occurrence of her life, she believes, happened during the iSgo's. For eight years she had been driven to and from the theatre in a hansom cab operated by a hackman known as "Red." One night, during a snowstorm...
...President Paul von Hindenburg went to Dietramszell, Bavaria, to shoot at chamois. Attired in mackintosh and with a gemsbart (chamois mane) stuck jauntily behind his green hunting hat, he was delighted when he brought down a buck. Not so delighted was he to learn that the Bavarian cabinet of Minister President Dr. Heinrich Held, who has been in office since 1924, had resigned after having failed to effect a higher slaughter tax. The bill would have added $2.000.000 annually to Bavaria's income by imposing a tax on all cattle butchered. There seemed to be little reason to believe that...
...coronation of Carol, buck-toothed King of Rumania, was suddenly and definitely postponed last week from Oct. 15 to an indefinite date in the spring of 1931. Every Rumanian knew the reason. Patient, hazel-eyed Queen Helen, whose presence at the coronation is vital if Carol is to retain any of his present popularity in Rumania, suddenly decided that reconciliation with the man who deserted her five years ago to elope to France with a red-headed Jewess was more than she could stomach. She fled to Mamaia with her son Prince Mihai for a vacation in the clean fresh...