Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State dining room plump Mrs. Clayton Douglass Buck was on the President's right because her husky husband runs Delaware, first State to ratify the Constitution. On the President's left in golden spangles, gold shoes and jade earrings was sharp, smart, colorful Mrs. Gifford Pinchot who had just been defeated for Congress in Pennsylvania (see p. 15). On leaving the White House, Governor Roosevelt, always jovial with the Press, when asked what he had discussed with President Hoover, said: "One may not talk when leaving the White House. I've been there before." Governor Pinchot...
...Economist Asks a Question." Drama: $1,000 to George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for Of Thee I Sing, obviously the year's foremost Broadway production, to the Pulitzer Board a "biting and true satire on American politics." Novel, History, Biography, Poetry: respectively to Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, General John Joseph Pershing, Henry Fowles Pringle, George Dillon...
With all testimony in, the polyglot Honolulu jury trying Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N.. his mother-in-law and two naval enlisted men for second-degree murder, was left last week with a split-second blind spot on the actual killing of Joseph Kahahawai Jr., Hawaiian buck. Nowhere in the sworn evidence was an eye-witness account of all that happened that early January morning at Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue's. Between the time Kahahawai, cowed by a revolver held by Lieut. Massie, allegedly confessed to the ravishment of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie and a bullet...
...after the intermission Tin Pan Alley took over the show. The curtain went up, disclosed six grand pianos in a semicircle and a seventh in the centre. Two men were at each of the six pianos, ready to play 24 hands on. President Gene Buck of the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers had become master of ceremonies...
...President Buck introduced the twelve Tin Pan Alleymen. Then the Alleymen took turns at the piano in the centre to play one of their best known songs while the eleven other Alleymen and an orchestra joined in. The dressy audience in the new Waldorf-Astoria Ballroom could not contain itself. It managed to listen quietly to Percy Wenrich play "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet" and to Raymond Hubbell's "Poor Butterfly," Arthur Schwartz's "Dancing in the Dark." But when Gus Edwards started "School Days" it was too much for them. They all started singing. They sang...