Word: boing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose skins are as wrinkled as a dirty handkerchief. His heavy baroque style brought him local fame when he applied it to a loutish, hunched figure called The Lineman. Other noteworthy Chicago artists: Malvin Albright, twin of Ivan who sculpts under the name of Zsissly; Aaron Bohrod (pronounced Bo-rod) who does sketches of Chicago streets and coal yards; Jean Crawford Adams (landscapes); Archibald John Motley Jr., Negro who gets a bright, sculpturesque quality in his portraits of fellow Negroes Frances Foy, whose specialty is city parks and streets...
...Goose, Laurel & Hardy, and Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. That the result makes no sense whatever in no way diminishes the fun of Babes in Toyland. Ollie Dee (Hardy) and Stannie Dum (Laurel) are boarders at the establishment of the Old Lady Who Lives in a Shoe. Her daughter, Bo-Peep (Charlotte Henry), is being pursued by old Silas Barnaby who holds a mortgage on the Shoe. But she loves Tom-Tom the Piper's son, who periodically helps her find her lost sheep. To thwart the blundering efforts of Ollie and Stannie to prevent the apparently inevitable manage...
...goals for the Auroras to 5 for Whitney's team. But the crowd in the blue Meadow Brook stands had noticed two surprising differences between the teams. Seymour Knox's ponies were stretching their necks ahead of Greentree's in races for the ball and "Big Bo'' Boeseke, mounted splendidly on Red Ace, Dos de Oro and Cacique, was clearly outplaying Smith. In the seventh chukker, Boeseke barely saved himself from a bad fall when his pony wheeled too sharply; a few moments later he had his hand bruised by a mallet. By this time...
...season has a good chance of scoring his point for a Crimson victory; while S. G. Haskins '35, the only Sophomore among the first ten players, couples a slightly unorthodox style of playing with indefatigable endurance, which breaks down an opponent's complacency as nothing else can. Bo Breck '34, recently out of Stillman infirmary, and Marshal Fabyan '34, complete the nine-man team, while J. B. Walker '33, Archibald Cox, Jr. '34, and R. S. Francis '33 are the reserves...
...After serving as lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, he became a member of the University alumni council, later a University trustee. In February 1929 "Ned" Doheny, 36, was shot by his mad secretary, Robert Plunkett, who then killed himself. A great Doheny friend was Warren Bradley Bo vard, 47, comptroller and vice president of U. S. C., son of its President Emeritus. In December 1930, Comptroller Bovard killed himself, left a note: "Goodbye, Blanie [his wife], I am going to look...