Word: buckly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...iron, steel, shipping & press tycoon; and Axel Soderstrom, 36, Swedish cinema producer, her companion last year on a round-the-world-motor trip; in London. Married. John Ringling art collector, railroad man, head of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, last of the five brothers; and a Mrs. Emily Haag Buck of Manhattan; in Jersey City. Best man: President Thomas Nesbitt McCarter of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Appointed. Capt. Albert B. Randall, master of S. S. George Washington: to be master of S. S. Leviathan and commodore of United States Lines' fleet succeeding Commodore Harold A. Cunningham, retiring...
Triangle shows must have a story, however remote from the general scheme of entertainment. This year's story concerns Wilbur Wilkins, the campus loafer (Joshua Logan), whose policies are op posed by Buck Heyward (Harold Tasker), the villain who wishes to awaken Prince ton from its beer-drinking lethargy. Vil lain Heyward also covets the affections of Miss Graham (Harry Dunham), daughter of Professor Graham (James Henry Breasted Jr., son of famed Orientalist Breasted of the University of Chicago). He is thwarted by handsome Bruce Pelham (James Stewart). The plot then skips 100 years by the simple method...
Daughter of a rich California family, Caroline was early made a globetrotter by her restless mother. In China she met Maggie, also from the U. S., and became her bosom friend. When Maggie married dashing Buck Dawson, British naval officer, Caroline followed her friend to England. While she watched the Dawsons' stormy married life Caroline took old Aristocrat Hugo as her fatherly lover. When she accidentally had a baby and Hugo's old wife died he wanted to do the right thing by her. To prevent him she married worthless Jock, gentleman rider and latent cad. He left...
...snake collection or when a circus man wants a small elephant to do balancing tricks, he tells a professional animal catcher about it. The animal catcher takes a trip to the native habitat, brings back one which is the exact size and shape required. For 18 years, Frank Buck has been going to Asia on such missions, has been furnishing U. S. cities with prize exhibits, "firsts," only animals of their kind in captivity, etc., etc. Fortnight ago he published a book telling what an animal catcher ex-periences.- Animal Man Buck's headquarters in Asia are at Singapore...
...alive. The Sultan of Johore, himself one of the greatest living shikari, told him about a tiger who had killed and eaten a coolie on one of the rubber plantations. Man-eating is an acquired taste among tigers. Usually the animals find the smell of a man unpleasant. Animalcatcher Buck dug a ditch, caught the animal which nearly scrambled out because it was too big for the ditch. It had to be lassoed like a Texas steer, pulled up to the mouth of the hole while a box was slipped under it. This specimen is now in Longfellow Zoological Park...