Word: buds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 30, Herbert Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram, Dorothy Kilgallen of Hearst's New York Journal and Leo Kieran of the New York Times set off on the Hindenburg to race around the world on commercial airlines as a publicity stunt for their respective papers. Bad planning on the part of the Journal and Times, plus a couple of offside jumps by Reporter Ekins, soon put that World- Telegram man far in the lead. This week he completed the world trip in 18 days...
Nebraska kicked. Minnesota quarterback Bud Wilkinson caught the ball on his 25-yd. line, ran forward. Then, with the whole Nebraska team massed on the left side of the field to tackle him, he flipped the ball backward to left halfback Andy Uram. Uram streaked down the right side of the field. Before Nebraska had recovered from its surprise, he had scored the touchdown that won for Minnesota its 19th game in succession...
...eight went to an animal dealer to be sold as pets, six went to the New York Zoological Park, two were consigned to Germany as cargo on the Hindenburg. For each of the tawny, wide-eyed, prick-eared creatures with 'little bumps where the horns are beginning to bud, Rancher Belden collected $100. Clumping about Manhattan in his cowboy boots, ten-gallon hat, the short, jovial "Antelope King" remarked: "None of the fawns was airsick. Whenever they seemed to mind the heat, we just flew a thousand feet higher. The trip was a cinch...
...unoffending Indian while his whole party was in the hands of the savages. The Indians demanded only his life in return, flayed him alive, while in a similar situation whites would have exterminated all the Indians in the area. Sallie Reynolds traveled to Colorado and back to Texas, married Bud Matthews, bore him eight children. Her book is filled with good plain Texas names such as Flake Barber and Si Hough, with accounts of droughts, troubles with banks, hard winters, written without heroics
...publicising its presentation this year, the Classical Club is serving a double purpose with particular fitness. It celebrates three hundred years of academic effort and achievement, and it also points a compelling finger at a vigorous previous flower on the tree of drama when apparently a new bud is struggling to open its petals. Several original undergraduate plays have been produced at Harvard this year, the New York Dramatic Critic's Circle is formed, creating an intelligent board to hand laurels to dramatic artists for the first time in America, and the Harvard Classical Club revives Plautus' Mostellaria; there...