Word: budded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week two cars full of deputies with shotguns escorted the prisoners to Decatur. Sheriff Bud Davis locked them up in a rickety jail which had been condemned for white prisoners two years ago. Thirty young militiamen mounted guard...
...Angeles, Parachute Jumper E. S. ("Spud") Manning challenged Jumper Harold ("Bud") Brandon to a contest to see who could drop nearer the earth before opening his chute. Plummeting from the sky, Jumper Brandon pulled his ripcord at 100 ft. altitude, won the match, was dashed to death upon the ground...
Take a Chance (book by Bud G. De Sylva & Laurence Schwab; music by Nacio Herb Brown, Richard Whiting. Vincent Youmans; Laurence Schwab, producer) is fast, noisy, funny. It reverts to the pre-Depression type of musicomedy, makes no pretense of smartness but loses no entertainment value by its atavism. Buried in a torrent of gags, girls and Jew blues is a plot: a Harvardman, trying to cash in on his Hasty Pudding Club theatrical experience, woos and wins a lowly dancer whose fortune two shoe-string impresarios try to promote. No Harvardman was ever more blond and decorous than Jack...
...Chicago Cubs: the longest baseball game of the current National League season (19 innings). 3 to 2 from the Boston Braves; at Chicago. Pitcher Guy Bush, who replaced Pitcher Bud Tinning for Chicago in the 18th inning, pitched one inning, received credit for the victory. Next day the Cubs beat the Braves 4 to 3 in 15 innings. Pitcher Bush replaced Pitcher Bob Smith in the 15th, received credit for another victory. In a National League pennant race even closer than last year's, the Brooklyn Dodgers last week overtook the Pittsburgh Pirates in second place, whittled Chicago...
...Dandy suggested that Mr. Carlson study medicine so that he might help others similarly mauled by birth. Yale Medical School accepted the student, reluctantly. How would he be able to perform his hospital duties? Professor Frederick Tilney, Columbia University neurologist, promised a job at the Neurological Institute upon graduation. "Bud" Stillman helped pay tuition and maintenance expenses. Medical Student Carlson had saved some money from his own earnings...