Word: buds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill Nertney, 18-year-old apprentice jockey: two races (on A. W. Abott's Gay Bird, A. C. Schwartz's Flag Trick) and four second places in one day; at the autumn meeting at Pimlico, Md. A brilliant new "find" of Trainer J. H. ("Bud") Stotler, Jockey Nertney has ridden 60 winners since June. On the last day of the Pimlico meeting he fell, sustained a concussion of the brain...
...Gutter swore he had won $40,000 from Capone; Harry Belford, better known as "Hickory Slim, the Dice Guy," $25,000. Other bookmakers got smaller amounts. Altogether Snorkey's fondness for playing the Caponies seemed to have cost him some $200.000. Snorkey smirked, did not seem ashamed. One Bud Gentry breezed up on the stand, recalled that Prizefighters Sharkey & Stribling and Mrs. Tex Rickard had been Capone's guests in Florida, said that at the end of the 1929 racing season he had won $110.-000 from Snorkey. He could not remember any of the horses Snorkey...
...leaf from the hard-won laurels of me-old-friend-and-pal Chet Van Tassel, he was never the Editor of Harper's Bazaar. Nor was it under his business managership that it became a "valuable property." Chester hoed and planted and weeded and brought it to bud but succeeding Business Manager Eugene Forker, now publisher of the New York American, was the force that actually brought things about for the further successful succession of Business Manager Fredric Drake, now at it at the old stand and popularly known as The Right Man in The Right Place...
...unfortunate killer is one John Allen (Edward Pawley), steel worker atop a skyscraper. He looks down pityingly on the "flies" beneath. Then he descends, marries a taxi-dancer (Blyth Daly), becomes a fly himself. Up high again, he resents things said about his wife by his good friend Bud Clark (Preston Foster) and in an argument Bud falls to his death. John loses his nerve, cannot climb, lives on money another man gives his wife. Then he wins $262, repays her, kills her to cleanse his soul. As he is on his way up the skyscraper again the Law overtakes...
Since Lyricist Bud De Sylva left the team of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson a faint note of illiteracy has crept into the words of the remaining pair's songs. Mr. Vallee, A.B. Yale 1927, must wince a little when he has to sing...