Word: boehm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh, asthmatic Eugene Boehm, under an oxygen tent, lit a cigaret, flared up like a match, burned to death...
Pitchers Celaves and Monkman with Bowe behind the plate led the representatives of Matthews to victory over their fellow Yardlings. The battery for Holworthy was Kendall and White pitching, and Boehm catching. The hits were distributed fairly evenly, but the superior fielding of Matthews decided the result of the game...
...nurse who expressed unethical annoyance when surgeons refused to operate upon a dying patient although the doctor on the case was an hour late. When an infantile paralysis epidemic breaks out, Trent retracts his testimony against Ludlow so as to continue his research, serves humanity, marries Ruth. David Boehm's hard-hitting screen play is far better craftsmanship than the ponderous directorship of Charles Vidor. Flying to Hollywood, Producer Schulberg's attention was attracted to dark John Trent, .who suggests a cross between Richard Barthelmess and George Raft, in the coffee shop of the Kansas City Airport. When...
...matter aside, set off at the head of a 40-car motor caravan to see things for himself. Rolling through stubbly, barren fields, over roads which blanketed the party in dust, the President inspected a sample WPA dam, turned into the farm of big, blue-eyed, young J. J. Boehm. While Mrs. Boehm and six small Boehms stared, the President asked: "How many acres have you?" "President," replied Farmer Boehm in a thick German accent, "I got 480 and I am having a hard time making a go of it." "Any water on this place? Have you a well?" "Everything...
...crystalline glass, papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal, the better the instrument's tone...