Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tammany Hall furnished the first horrid example of what was in store for Democratic organizations that tried to buck the White House. On the first House roll call passing the President's vital economy bill, three Manhattan and seven Brooklyn Democrats voted against it. In the van of the opposition was Brooklyn's freckled Cullen, assistant majority leader of the House, who explained that he had made campaign pledges against salary pension cuts. Said he: "I'm with the President 100% but I'd given my word to my constituents...
...news of the week to California's unemployed doctors & aviators was Dr. Chung's combined Air & Medical Corps. It was big news to Nanking and Peiping too, where the Corps was expected to bring valuable flyers and doctors to oppose Japan and even more valuable publicity to buck up the troops...
Besides Mr. Wroth's piece, one finds an author's reminiscences (Mrs. Buck); two reminiscences about authors (Mr. Wilde & Mr. Brooke): two scholarly essays on bookish subjects: three items of rather fusty Americana: a humorous sketch: and a single woodent...
...Buck Rogers in 2433. Fantastic adventures 500 years hence...
...companions describes him as "overflowing with wit, gaiety, laughter, and Aristophanic joy." It was in Gogarty's garden that George Moore conceived the idea for "Ave, Salve, Vale." An apple tree in Gogarty's garden was the inspiration for Moore's "Tree of Vision." Gogarty himself is the Buck Mulligan in Joyce's "Ulysses...