Word: boy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carrot-haired George Buchanan, dour David Kirkwood. Amid Tory cheers and then a dead hush Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin edged over for a tense, whispered conference with Liberal David Lloyd George. If the Welshman agreed to go in with Baldwin, as he did fortnight ago on the picayune messenger boys issue (TIME, Dec. 9), then the MacDonald Cabinet was as good as done. But Mr. Lloyd George is peculiar. Like the Heathen Chinee, he and his Liberals sat impassive, refused to go into either division lobby, abstained from voting. Scowling, the Conservatives followed the Clydesiders; scowling blacker the regular Laborites...
...Named after an Italian boy, Balilla, who distinguished himself when Austrians besieged Genoa in 1800, by hurling a rock at the enemy...
Obviously if sound movie producers use a song published by somebody else, they get no royalties, may have to pay some. Example: Warner Bros, purchased "Sonny Boy," published and written by De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, with lyric changes by Al Jolson. Estimated royalties were upward of $750,000, of which Warner Bros, received not a cent. Warner Bros, learned a lesson, purchased Witmarks Inc. for approximately $5,000,000.* Radio Corp. seemed last week to have learned that lesson too. A contracted composer for Leo Feist, Inc. is Mabel Wayne, composer of "Ramona," and considered the best Feist music writer...
...Senor Patiño's customers the most important is the National Lead Co. whose principal business is to make things out of lead-such things as painters' materials (Dutch Boy Paint), babbitt metals, piano key leads, storage battery oxides. Important alloy of lead is tin, without which many of the most widely used lead products (such as solder) could not be made. The mines owned by National Lead are a small factor in its position as the world's largest consumer of tin and lead. For this reason National Lead, like any wise concern, keeps...
...east. In a sleepy little village on the Hudson he boards with his impoverished cousins, the Tracys, and discovers an old house, the Lorburn family mansion, built in the early 19th Century style of "Hudson River Bracketed." Vance runs the usual gamut of the literarily ambitious small-town boy; he discovers that he is no poet, goes home to Euphoria, gets a job on the local newspaper. But his ambition will not be downed: three years later he gets back to Manhattan on the strength of one published story, marries his Tracy cousin, is mildly lionized by literary society...