Word: buzzards
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Together with Ascot, his family home in Leighton Buzzard, Banker Anthony de Rothschild, third son of Leopold, turned over his "priceless" art collection (paintings by Hogarth, Rubens and Gainsborough, Ming and Sung dynasty Chinese porcelain, etc.) to the British National Trust...
Cornell's newest professor is seventyish, trim, and as peppery as ever. She fondly refers to a friend or an associate as "old buzzard." Exacting to a fault, Dr. L'Esperance sees things beginning to go her way. Since 1946, juniors from Cornell's Department of Preventive Medicine have had to take a session at the Memorial's Strang Cancer Prevention Clinic. This summer, the clinic at Memorial will get its first internes. Doctors who get this training, Dr. L'Esperance hopefully believes, may yet be able to prevent many a cancer by catching...
General Motors Coach buses, led the attack. "Behind this deal," shrilled El Mundo, "is a rapacious promoter internationally known for his misdeeds and crooked deals, a buzzard who presents himself to us disguised as the Holy Ghost, a speculator in shady business, a knave with hands of silk . . . Pawley came to Havana and said: "I have come to exchange the old streetcars for modern buses to benefit the population.' But what he really intends to do is exchange the goat...
Dorothy Gish and Don Hanmer handle their frightened and frightening roles, their near-hysterical relationship, with decided skill; in fact, their performances are far better than the play. Theatrically, The Man is too low for a hawk and too high for a buzzard: it lacks the proper seriousness of a clinical study, the proper tingle of a thriller. It is not merely that the piece is too slow-moving. The Man depresses instead of exhilarates, sets its audience longing for good wholesome maniacs and fine fancy killers...
...Buzzard. It was a desk job and Douglas stood it as long as he could. But he kept pestering the brass for a chance to get into the fighting. His chance came when the ist Division charged ashore at Peleliu. On the second savage day, the adjutant of the 5th Marines was wounded; back to the ships went the message: "If that old white-haired buzzard wants to get in some fighting, let him come ashore." Douglas stayed with the 5th through some of the bloodiest days of the Pacific campaign, won a Bronze Star for carrying ammunition...