Word: boren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before a battery of microphones stood 16 nervous boys and girls. They were finalists in the 13th annual Louisville Courier-Journal National Spelling Bee in which 15 other newspapers participated. They were about to produce the closest practical approximation of the "best speller in the U. S." Representative Lyle Boren of Oklahoma was standing with the judges. Morose, georgette, cited, ingenuity, questionnaire, accessible, meringue, gudgeon, insoluble, parliamentary, aphorism, olfactory and lineaments cleared the stage of all but three. Then the only remaining boy, Angelo Mangieri of Hoboken and the Jersey Observer, 14 and totally blind, tripped on receptacle...
...Democratic Representative Percy Lee ("Don't Call Me Percy") Gassaway, whose ten-gallon hat, cowboy boots, wing collar, shoestring tie and advocacy of birth control made him a minor notable in the 74th Congress. Victor on a cowhide radical program was jut-jawed, 27-year-old Lyle H. Boren who stepped out of a Government job for the campaign. Gassaway's chief attack on him was his failure to marry, produce 14 children, as Gassaway had done. Replied Nominee Boren: "Old Noah or someone in the Bible was 500 years old before he married. All I need...
...Chicago's tragedy the curtain went up last week when attorneys for Dr. Clarence Boren & wife of Marinette, Wis., both of whom had stayed at the Congress Hotel and had contracted dysentery, filed the first suit resulting from the epidemic. It asked $300,000 damages each from Dr. Bundesen and the Congress. The charge : To protect his reputation and its financial interests Dr. Bundesen and the hotel had "wilfully and wantonly" sup pressed news of the epidemic. In defense, publicity-loving Dr. Bundesen pointed only to the following statement by Dr. Roscoe R. Spencer of the U. S. Public...