Word: boy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late King Edward VIIth's first automobile (a Daimler like George V's last) puffed and wheezed ahead of Captain Malcolm Campbell's 200-mile-an-hour Bluebird. There was a League of Nation's float and a Good Turn Truck on which a Boy Scout turned and flapped flapjacks...
...Cross and Boy Scouts have been mobilized. . . . President Chacon has cut short his holiday and returned to take personal charge...
...rise of the Hearst scions in their father's world has not been meteoric but deliberately, parentally calculated. They have had to work in their school vacations. At 17, William Randolph Jr. worked as a union "fly boy" (pulling papers from the presses) in the press room of the New York Mirror. Then he was a reporter on the San Francisco Call. Last year he left the University of California to go to Manhattan as police reporter for the American, became city hall reporter, then worked across the desk from Editor Stanton Arthur Coblentz until his father thought him ready...
...Eugene Gladstone O'Neill happened to attend. So enthusiastic was O'Neill that he went backstage and begged Robeson to act in Emperor Jones. His law course finished, Robeson consented, and made a name as a big actor in Emperor Jones, All God's Chillun, Black Boy...
...critics complained that such a program tends to monotony, that Robeson's range is too limited to offset it. But the lay audience, including such famed white Negrophiles as Novelists Fannie Hurst and Carl Van Vechten, received him ecstatically, applauded tremendously after ''Water Boy,'' "I'm Goin' to Tell God all my Troubles" and "Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho." Robeson will remain in the U. S. for two months, will sing at Rutgers College. New Brunswick, N. J.; at Toronto. Pittsburgh. Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Wis., Columbus, Ohio. In January he returns...