Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wild Cargo (RKO) makes Frank Buck's life work of collecting animals for zoos appear to be a sinecure. When Buck sits down to rest in a Malay jungle he knows at once what causes each and every noise. "The East Indian binturong," says he, ''is a strange creature, half-bear, half-cat." Presently the binturong is laughing in a cage. When Frank Buck pitches a camp, white monkeys swarm on the roof. When he looks at a tree, there is a leopard in it. When a friendly potentate gives him a pig for Thanksgiving dinner...
Only a few of the larger animals give Frank Buck occasional trouble. This picture shows him dancing uneasily around a cobra, escaped from its crate; herding wild elephants into a corral; scooping a man-eating tiger out of a hole in the ground; catching a leopard in a snare. Other animals which appear in Wild Cargo are flying foxes, water buffalo, mouse-deer, gibbons, orangutans, tapirs. Most appealing are a white Rhesus monkey and a honey bear engaged in a calm, incompetent wrestling bout; most alarming, the python who slithers forlornly through Wild Cargo, strangling a black panther, frightening...
...Cleveland's Administration," Mr. Buck, New Lecture Hall...
...Postmaster General and the Secretary of War. It is interred that he took their advice. This is true. But the implication in some published reports that Mr. Roosevelt seeks to escape personal responsibility is an unwarranted assumption. For the President is not the kind of man who "passes the buck" to others. He has said publicly that when he makes a mistake, he will acknowledge it and retreat...
...Gregory Goodwin Pincus and his associate refined their operative procedure, gave their performers every advantage. The agouti* doe which was to contribute the ova was first allowed to mate with a sterile buck. After removal the ova, examined to make sure they were not fertilized, were placed in a culture flask for 20 min. with the healthy sperm of a non-agouti black buck. Finally they were implanted in the right Fallopian tube of a New Zealand Red doe which had been rendered pseudopregnant by a sterile mating. The dark grey color of the bunnies, born 33 days later...