Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul H. Buck, assistant professor of History and tutor in the division of Government, History and Economics, was awarded the $1,000 Pulitzer Prize in American History for his book "Read to Reunion--1865-1900," it was announced last night...
Even the circus will be represented at the Smoker in the person of two dwarfs and a giant, but the chances of seeing the Terror, billed as the largest ape ever kept in captivity, are remote. Frank Buck, of "Bring them back alive" fame, may supplement this performance...
...style which fairly often succeeds in being comic, epic and pastoral at the same time, he has done more than 600 tempera and watercolor drawings of Gaucho life on the pampas of Argentina as he remembers it from his own childhood. So crammed with vitality are his buck-toothed cowboys and hammer-headed broncos, thrown into relief by strong, earthy tempera colors, that Pio Collivadino, onetime director of the National School of Decorative Arts in Buenos Aires, has described them as major examples of "harmonious destruction." Good examples are The Last Gaucho (see cut) and How About...
...morning of Oct. 15, 1899 (goes her story), that drunken, 18-year-old Allen Britt (or Albert), a sturdy downriver buck, strode into Housemaid Frankie's St. Louis bedroom with another woman. When Frankie ordered him to leave, he drew a knife. As Frankie edged toward her pistol she warned him: "You're trying to get me hurt, and I don't want me to hurt you. The best place for you to go is your mother." When Britt failed to take the hint, she shot him. Groaning on the floor, he gasped: "Oh, you have...
...Manhattan last fortnight, soft-voiced, grey-haired Elizabeth Seifert, winner of the $10,000 Dodd, Mead-Redbook Magazine novel contest, attended a big luncheon in her honor at which Hendrik Van Loon, Pearl Buck and other literary notables spoke, hurried back to her home town of Moberly, Mo. to start work on another novel. The wife of a refrigeration engineer (her real name is Mrs. John Gasparotti), Prize-winner Seifert won over 1,200 contestants with Young Doctor Galahad, a story of a small-town physician, planned to use her winnings to educate her four children. For herself she bought...