Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gravure have been supplanted by chaste heads-&-shoulders-in a recent issue those of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Composographs (faked pictures) are permanently outlawed. Photographs of dead bodies must not be "horrible." Fiction serials are still as sexy as those of the average tabloid. Sample title: "The Chastity of Gloria Boyd...
...Corrigan, inclined to making cynical observations on the discrepancies between justice and the law. One evening he sees a girl (Helen Twelvetrees) brought into court on a vice charge. He defends her, makes her his mistress. Like Lawyer Day, Lawyer Corrigan is thick with thieves. A political gangster (William Boyd) helps him to be made state's attorney. When called to defend a murderess, Corrigan remarks, "She'd be free tonight if I were her lawyer." Then he obtains a confession and conviction...
...behalf of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and, perhaps, Cornell, I thank you, Mr. Boyd-Carpenter. M. Fred Loewenstein...
...editorial entitled "Quem ad finem, O Catalina . . ." in this morning's CRIMSON had a peculiar interest for me, even though my Latin fails me. It so happens that I was host to Mr. Boyd-Carpenter and his fellow-debater during their two day stay in Cambridge. I may add that they came to me by that most uncertain of all routes--a letter of introduction...
...first night of their stay, while we were out, my roommates, perhaps under the influence of that "luscious liquor" which Mr. Boyd-Carpenter found so prevalent in our academic circles, amused themselves by arranging our study in accordance with an American's concept of an Englishman's concept of an American college study. When we returned, Mr. Boyd-Carpenter found his couch surrounded by beer, gin, and whiskey bottles, the walls covered with choice excerpts from "Ballyhoo" and "College Humor." Mr. Boyd-Carpenter's conclusions bespeak the complete success of the "decor...