Word: boney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college girls givva more da mon' den da boys? Well, mebby, sometime. Nobody givva much in da cold weather. I maka most my mon' in spring, when it's warm an' da folks hang outta da window". Thus did Joe the hurdy-gurdy man, whose rickety cart, boney horse and barking dog are familiar figures in Cambridge, sum up his business prospects, without realizing that he was undergoing an interview with a CRIMSON reporter...
...news swept over the radio. Country dames, undisturbed since "Boney" pranced on the sands of Boulogne, barricaded themselves in remote closets. One sheriff from the north counties telephoned the Mayoress of Newcastle to learn what the constabulary was doing to frustrate the Red menace. But he was only carrying coals to Newcastle; for the Mayoress probably wanted to know herself...
...when the actors showed the first signs of being interested themselves, the play was interesting to the audience. She proved an apt pupil of the Cave Man School of Courting and used the telephone to good advantage on his head. The plot reached its rather delayed climax, with Boney providing even more than his share of the entertainment. His removal to the asylum was the real ending of the play...