Word: buxton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Critic Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter from a small boy in Australia named Peter Buxton. Peter wanted to know the answers to some questions about "Mr. Yehudi" (Menuhin). Critic Frankenstein was so taken with Peter's knowledgeable prattle that he appointed him the Chronicle's Critic-Down-Under. Last week Critic Buxton's last year's concert-hall impressions were made public under the heading Reasume...
They Won't Forget (Warner Bros.). On Confederate Memorial Day (April 26) the little town of Flodden, Ga., takes a half holiday. In the town park, a handful of tottering Civil War veterans doze and chatter while they wait to march in the parade. At the Buxton Business College classes are dismissed early and the school's principal is surprised when one of the girls, pretty Mary Clay (Lana Turner) comes back to the classroom to get a vanity case she has forgotten. At the town cemetery, the show-going old Governor pays sincere tribute to the dead...
...returned in time to hear Laborite Lord Noel-Buxton flail the Government's Imperial policy-a policy which Earl Baldwin has been intermittently sponsoring since 1923 when he first became Prime Minister. Lord Noel-Buxton thundered that the Government was bungling its African relations, urged the Imperial Conference, meeting in London, to see to it that the peoples of the Empire were protected "regardless of race." Earl Baldwin said nothing...
...preface, Maurice Buxton Forman thought their evidence should at last lay the legend of Fanny Brawne's heartlessness, establish her as the worthy sweetheart of a great poet. Lay readers could not see that, short of reading between the lines with a very sympathetic eye, the letters changed matters much one way or the other...
...Said Jay Buxton, glider builder of Haw thorne, Calif.: "We'll start and go as far as we can." That was a month ago when Manufacturer Buxton & Daughter Lucretia were starting out with three associates to tow their two-seated glider Transporter to Elmira behind a 1925 Rolls-Royce. They arrived in five days. On the second day of the meet, Daughter Lucretia and Associate Fred Barnes climbed into Transporter, took off from Harris Hill at 10:27 a. m., soared until 5:22 p. m. In the air they shivered, ate peanuts, chatted with each other and with...