Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their benches. As the truck careened, a five-gallon can of gasoline and a big drum just inside the rear door gurgled, churned and occasionally slopped over. Rivulets of gasoline made crazy patterns over the pitching floor. But the cold was worse than the jouncing. Finally a big black buck named Henry pulled a piece of paper from his pocket, held a match to it, dropped it on the floor, holding out his pale palms to warm them over the flames...
...Horrible Hohenzollern," buck-toothed King Carol II of Rumania, put his Jewish Mistress Magda Lupescu aboard his Royal Train at Bucharest and rattled off to Paris where Magda alighted and remained. His Majesty was brought to Dover on the British destroyer Montrose, received a 21-gun salute from Dover Cas tle, was met in London by the heir to the Throne, the Duke of York, and took up residence in the house of a sister of one time U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Her husband, the Irish Earl of Granard, was Master of the Horse to King...
...Proprietors of drugstores, dance-halls, delicatessens are likely to be incredulous and indignant when warned that they are trespassing. A variation of Bank Night is currently popular at Manhattan's Stork Club, where patrons get free chances for substantial cash prizes. Imitations of Bank Night called "Dividend Night," "Buck Night," "Cash Night," "Screeno," are flourishing in cinema houses all over the U. S. Handing down his opinion in Des Moines. where Bank Night has been so popular that police and fire departments had to be called out sometimes to control theatre crowds, Justice Leon Powers last week showed...
According to Pearl Buck, the Chinese are akin to Americans, the Japanese to the English. This theory might explain why the U. S. has never taken the Japanese seriously, likes to regard them as a comic-opera race. It might also partly account for the delicate sympathy of The Wooden Pillow, whose author is an Englishman. But even the most arrant xenophobe could find little to feed his fears on and much to touch his Western conscience in Carl Fallas' gossamer tale. Japanese travel bureaus would be shrewd to boost The Wooden Pillows sales. Cynics may suspect that...
...Boxer Rebellion, the Chinese Revolution-she lived through them all. Once every seven years she and her family went "home." Less & less of a Protestant with the years, she drifted away from her husband and his God, lived a woman's religion of her own. Says Author Buck, strongly on Carie's side: "Since those days ... I have hated Saint Paul with all my heart and so must all true women hate him. I think. . . ." With her long job done, her surviving children grown and gone, Carie died as she had lived, in exile...