Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purportedly War-wrecked characters against a recent Armistice Day celebration in Paris. Rarely encountered outside the pages of bogus novels, these gloomy folk go about telling each other that they are "so tired," complaining of "the jitters," wishing they were dead. Once in a while one encourages another to "buck up," but for the most part pessimism is the order of the day. A female member of the British aristocracy who has been living with an insane exiled Grand Duke actually manages to blow her brains out. The rest, gigolos, rich nymphomaniacs, Fascist financiers, drunks, drift on toward perdition...
...Farley could easily have seen that a love for student committees, a knowledge of how to pass the buck, and a belief in the effectiveness of inaction which usually simplify difficult problems would not settle the question of Harvard's lost sheep. He would have appreciated immediately the pickle which confronts a growing national university, when its local clients demand concessions. He would have understood instantly that delay makes such a social problem rapidly attain momentum. By this time, he would have several ERA projects distracting commuter attention...
...Economist Mitchell was disturbed by what the late James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke created with his tobacco millions on the campus at Durham, N. C., he must have purpled at the thought of what "Buck" Duke had left up North. At Somerville,N. J. was Mr. Duke's 5,000-acre estate with its statues, its fountains, its 35 miles of paved road. At Newport was Mr. Duke's summer place. In Manhattan, at No. i East 78th St., was the classic marble palace "Buck" Duke built for his wife 25 years ago, with its tapestry-hung salons, winding...
...Terrible!" cried Mayor Bacharach. "It looks like a Frank Buck, like a 'Bring-em-back-alive.' Atlantic City is not a Zulu town...
...onlooker hating violence, Yuan plays no vital part in the revolution that brought Chiang Kai-shek to Nanking. Mrs. Buck's faintly archaic Biblical rhythms, so well-adapted to the peasant and patriarchal life of an older China, falter when she tries to suggest the clutter of the coastal cities and the amazement of a young Chinese in the U. S. Her style has been compared by her more enthusiastic followers to the prose of the King James Bible. Critic Stark Young has attempted to put the quietus to this claim by printing some of Pearl Buck and some...