Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hervey Allen (Anthony Adverse), Pearl Buck (The Good Earth), Frederick Lewis Allen (Only Yesterday), Frederic G. Melcher (The Publishers' Weekly), William Warder Norton (National Association of Book Publishers), and E. S. McCawley (American Booksellers Association) last week went to the White House bearing gifts: 200 books published in the past four years, an addition to the 500 volumes with which the publishers started a White House library four years ago (TIME, April 7, 1930). Mrs. Roosevelt entertained the delegation at luncheon. Later all went to the President's office where the books were laid out on a table...
...neighborhood were invited out to George Cannidy's place for a lynching. Someone had dragged Farmer Cannidy's young daughter Lola out across his cotton patch, raped her near a pigsty, bashed in her head and left her under some pine boughs for dead. A Negro buck named Claude Neal had been arrested for the crime, lodged for safe keeping in a jail across the Alabama line at Brewton. One hundred Floridians had driven over to Brewton and without much fuss removed Claude Neal from the jail...
Tallying for the first time in over two years on a long pass from Fullerton to Doyle, the Brooks House eleven eked out a tie with Winthrop yesterday afternoon, just as dusk was falling over Soldiers Field. An attempt to convert the extra point by a line buck was stopped by inches. After the kickoff there were three play before the game ended, all passes, and all intercepted in the gathering gloom...
...long offensive scrimmage against Dartmouth plays, and that the Varsity was in good shape. No lineups were given out, and the correspondents were invited to guess at what the backfield will be for the Dartmouth battle this weekend. So there's not much to do except pass the buck to the "gentle readers...
...little heroine had learned more than one trick on the street corners of her native haunt, so never despairing, she rallied those friends she had obtained for his friends and, one and all, they donned false buck teeth and eyeglasses of passing ugliness. It was, of course, arranged that if the boys were such as to really hit the spot, the disguises would come off quick as a wink, but strange to say the teeth stayed in, and equally strangely, the boys left. ("You know Amherst boys," the Freshman said...