Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seditious in wartime, pacifism is not so un-Christian in times of peace. Last month, when the Episcopal diocese of Southern Ohio found itself without a Bishop because of the resignation of Bishop Boyd Vincent, 84, and the serious illness of Bishop Coadjutor Theodore Irving. Reese, Bishop Paul Jones was called to be acting Bishop. Last week he took his post. Few Ohioans felt that the Episcopal Church and the safety of the nation were thus endangered...
Campaigning for next year's presidency was hardbitten. Dr. Percy Howe of Harvard Dental School ended his term last week. Dr. Robert Boyd Bogle of Nashville, president-elect last year, assumed the presidency. Who would be chosen president-elect? Army dentists and those who served in the Dental Corps during the War electioneered for Col. Robert T. Oliver of the Army Dental Corps. Others wanted Dr. Martin Dewey of Manhattan. Incoming President Bogle was so eagerly interested in such association politics that he was typically ungracious to those few reporters who wanted dental information for their readers...
There were also some petty jealousies. One John Boyd of Philadelphia sighed, accused two-time champion Carl G. Kaufmann, poker-faced Pittsburgh clerk, of getting all the "breaks." "I'm not a whale of a golfer myself," said Linkster Boyd, "but if I ever get a crack at Kaufmann I'll prove they grow better golfers on Pittsburgh's links." His "crack" came in the semifinals. Champion Kaufmann won, 3 & 2. In the 36-hole final round Champion-Kaufmann kept his championship, beat solemn Milton Concrant, Toledo mailman...
Deviously Paula set about her malefactions. First she led Boyd to believe that Barbara had merely been duping him. So much did this evidence of duplicity infuriate the upright fellow that he straightway became drunk and stole into the night with Paula. She took him to an unsavory rooming house, where a blue-chinned bootlegger appeared. Boyd sampled his wares and found them unpalatable. When the bootlegger asked for pay, Boyd refused. A tussle ensued. The bootlegger produced a revolver. Paula snatched a convenient bottle and felled him. Then while Boyd dropped in a drunken stupor over the bootlegger...
Later she showed her dingy colors by silently allowing the evidence to point toward Boyd as the murderer. When the truth threatened, she downed a dose of cyanide of potassium...