Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the "River of Doubt" had become a great popular joke in the U. S. First a noisy controversy arose as to whether such a river actually existed. The newspapers jumped into the fray. Cartoons appeared featuring a burly figure with buck teeth and thick-lensed glasses, and a nebulous torrent. Editorials were written on both sides of the quarrel. The "River of Doubt" became a household phrase and the country had a grand time...
Seeking Divorce. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 42, author (The Good Earth, Sons, House Divided), onetime Presbyterian mission teacher in China, resigned because of her religious liberalism (TIME, May 8, 1933); from John Lossing Buck, onetime agricultural missionary; in Reno. She was reported planning to marry President Richard John Walsh of John Day Co., who published her Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Good Earth...
...Carthage, Tex., close to the Louisiana State line, Henry Walton, big black buck, began to dote on the philosophy of Huey Long. Last week he got a pistol, used it to knock a storekeeper over the head, helped himself to the trade goods, conducted a brief reign of terror. Then he fled across the Sabine River. When pursuers arrived on the opposite bank, he shouted: "Stay on your side of the Sabine! Me and Huey Long is running this side." The constable of the Carthaginians, who had no wish to share their wealth, knelt down and drilled Henry Walton through...
Until a big black buck demanded the truck, the Metropolitan's new manager answered questions with simple charm. He had seen the papers in the train that morning, seen "Johnson" in the headlines and "honestly I couldn't realize that the stories were about me and not about the General or Jack or maybe Pussyfoot...
...contender. In the East, is looked upon with favor, while Cornell remains the perennial dark Tradition decrees that Columbia will be there, but the loser, in a close finish, the worm turns, for in four close finishes, the Morningside Heights boat has second best four times. Navy, under young Buck Walsh, may triumph, since a crew is always considered dangerous in rough water. Can Callow do for Pennsylvania what he used to do at Washington and what the Ouskers have done--turn in a victory...