Search Details

Word: buster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

With the bases loaded by virtue of passes to Bilodeau, and Jim sullivan and Buster McacTernen's infield single, chances for a Crimson victory in the tenth appeared bright. But the St. John's pitcher, Irving Prince, forced Dave Shean to hit into a fast double play, ending the inning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARKNESS HALTS TIE GAME WITH ST. JOHN'S | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...feelings, he leaves her his mansion and his fortune, hoping she will be able to get rid of the undesirables. Armed with a sheaf of damaging evidence against them, she offers to buy out their businesses if they will leave town. Her only friend, an amiable gambler named Buster Niles (James Rennie), knocks down and fatally injures a man who accuses him of sleeping with Miss Quis. This gives her enemies a chance to get back at her by editing their testimony at Niles's trial, but she buys them off by doubling her offers and Niles goes free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Even the presence of Lorre can't offset the dialogue and pilot sufficiently to keep the vehicle afloat. It might also be said that there is a love element in "Crack Up," even as it might be added that Buster Crabbe appears with pants on in "Murder goes to College...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: PARAMOUNT & FENWAY | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

Died. Milton Dwight Purdy, 70, one-time (1924-34) judge of the U. S. Court for China at Shanghai, onetime (1903-05) Assistant U. S. Attorney General; of heart disease; in Honolulu. Famed as Theodore Roosevelt's "chief trust buster," he won the historic Northern Securities Supreme Court decision (1904) which blocked merger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 22, 1937 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...against unions or their activities. Time & again Prosecutor Dewey leaped up to protest that no union was on trial. At week's end 500 A. F. of L. unionists rallied to a meeting of the city's Central Trades and Labor Council, denounced Prosecutor Dewey as "Union Buster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Fight Against Fear | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Previous | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | Next