Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farming rather than law ran in the Rainey blood. Today the Majority Leader lives in a rambling frame house on a -acre farm near Carrollton. He has pure-bred Holstein-Friesians and fine Hampshire hogs. Over his place roams a herd of sacred Japanese deer, bred from a buck and two does originally obtained from the Washington zoo in exchange for one porcupine. Childless, he has built a wading pool for neighborhood children, gives them the run of his grounds for picnics and play. His milk and corn are trucked to St. Louis. He says: "I think I have...
...tentative plan for inter-House eating, which was advanced yesterday, may, by its suddenness; surprise many who had come to believe that a process which has been characterized by alleged buck passing and a hasty, ill-advised experiment was to find its obscure end in an effective committee cubbyhole. For these and for others who have regarded the problem as trivial the best refutation is to be found in the admirable report which accompanies the announcement...
...have come in for much sharp criticism during the past month, in the week-by-week reports of the laymen's Appraisal Commission which surveyed the field for seven U. S. Protestant churches (TIME, Oct. 31). Last week came more criticism, in a Manhattan speech by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, author of The Good Earth and Sons, daughter of missionaries, wife and faculty associate of Professor John Lossing Buck whose non-missionary agricultural college at Nanking University is considered a model of its kind. Said Mrs Buck: "I suppose, next to the Chinese among whom I have lived, there...
...Buck was born in Hillsboro, W. Va.. in 1890, while her parents were briefly vacationing from China...
...trailing a buck, when suddenly the wind shrieked and almost instantly the sky turned black. Great puffy black clouds scudded overhead. Startled, I hastily turned toward the edge of the Park where my bunch was to have met me. I hadn't come a quarter of a mile before the blizzard let loose. It was as though the whole country had been blotted out. The snow cut at my face and I couldn't keep my eyes open. I ran into trees and fell over roots. Finally, I fired my rifle into the air three times. I nearly...