Word: buffalo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same tree as a child to escape discipline. From that tree, he said, he saw his first torchlight parade from the village, at the time of Cleveland's election in 1892. "I got out of bed to come downstairs in an old-fashioned nightshirt-wrapped in a big buffalo robe...
Lauritz Melchior, big, Danish-born No. 1 Wagnerian tenor of the Metropolitan, on vacation in South Dakota's Black Hills, dressed himself in demi-Danish hunting costume, by special permit brought down an 1,800-lb. buffalo...
...Dodge Jr., 44, thrice-married motorcar heir, was busy last week with a full program of marital madcapping. After days of long-distance objections (Stamford, Conn, to Denver) to the proposed marriage of his son, Corporal H. E. Dodge III to Margery Gehman, redheaded daughter of a University of Buffalo professor, he announced that he would attend as best man, arrived in Denver 48 hours late, having missed plane connections. Sitting on her lap, he gave his blessing to his new daughter-in-law, told reporters he was in love with 2nd Lieut. Cara Tinsley, an Army nurse...
Curmudgeon Ickes didn't like the idea at all. Henry the Morgue was afraid the statuette of himself might be sold over the counter for 50?, along with little images of Buffalo Bill and George Washington. President Roosevelt took one look at the result and cried: "Wait a minute. I don't wear a waistcoat." Through it all, diminutive, agile, 53-year-old Sculptor Max Kalish preserved speed and competence. He was engaged in one of the most spectacular one-man sculpture marathons ever undertaken: the modeling of some 50 statues of U.S. war leaders in sittings...
...discovery was made accidentally, in almost the same way as Dr. Alexander Fleming's finding of penicillin. The Buffalo researchers noticed a green fungus growing on a culture of tubercle bacilli stored in an icebox. The mold seemed to have an affinity for the tubercle germ; it did not grow well in any other medium. It produced a substance (not penicillin, which has been ineffective against tuberculosis) that checked the growth of tubercle bacilli. A preparation from the mold neutralized tuberculin in two hours...