Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strikers, many of them also back-countrymen, attempted to block the highways, break up the convoys. Trees were felled across the road. In one case a "loyal worker" injured three strikers when ordered by Guardsmen to drive his car full tilt through a blockading group. Adjutant General W. C. Boyd in charge of militia at Elizabethton was arrested on a charge of "aiding and abetting an attempt to commit murder," preferred by a woman striker seriously injured by this motor onslaught...
...Boyds. "Starring William Boyd" & "Featuring William Boyd" appeared simultaneously last week on the posters of United Artists and Pathé. Both posters showed pictures of a manly, straight-featured William Boyd-the Pathé Boyd a film actor of long standing, the United Artists Boyd a new recruit from the legitimate stage (What Price Glory}. Though each William Boyd had baptismal right to his name, Pathé prepared to sue United Artists...
...bronze; Albert Sidney Johnston in the loneliness of early Texas; Captain Maffitt driving precarious steamboats, heavy with cotton, and priceless with morphia and powder and gold, into the blockaded night; Nathan Forrest charging at the head of his troops, with his great sabre ground to a razor edge; Belle Boyd, who was more dangerous, more destructive, than canister or solid shot; Jeb Stuart decorated with a rose, wound in a yellow silk sash; and John Worsham, a foot soldier with Stonewall Jackson in the Great Valley...
...January one Boyd Fairchild, Dry snooper, reported to the State's Attorney a purchase of liquor at the home of one Joseph De King, 38, in Aurora. For this information he was paid $5. A "John Doe" warrant was sworn...
...Boyd Senter, famous something recording artist, plays soprano sax and clarinet with liberal variation and the tone you seldom hear. The entire program is fond of that hilarious device--the kick in the pants. We counted a round half dozen, taking in the two movies and the stage show, and there were lots of times when we might have missed them...