Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rockaway, Long Island one summer day 19 years ago, a tipsy slattern wove into the chop suey restaurant of Fung Kwok-dong, plunked down on a table a naked boy infant, offered to sell him for $1. Fung Kwok-dong impassively handed over a dollar bill. Two years later when the mother tried to get her son back Fung Kwok-dong went to court, won legal possession. The white babe was legally adopted and given the name Fung Kwok-keung...
Many times the elder Fung hinted by letter that he would like his white son to be with him but every time the boy would reply in exquisite Cantonese that he preferred to remain with his honorable mother and his cherished sister, Su Hung...
Said New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia: "Take the patriotic approach. . . . The nation has an interest in every expectant mother because her child may be a boy. Even if it isn't, it at least is the potential mother of future boys...
...Craven, as the minister who marries the boy and girl lovers, doesn't know whether he approves of marriage or not, but in the last act the events and he become quite philosophical, and he comes forth with some decided views on death. He takes for granted a universal belief in the immortality of the soul, and then he explains that a dozen people, sitting very stiffly in chairs on the stage, are dead people in their graven, waiting for the earthly parts of themselves to pass away, and for the great metamorphosis into their eternal forms to overtake them...
...unlike Babbitt, Fred Cornplow is harassed by two extraordinarily rude, extravagant, self-centred children who almost drive him crazy and then try to lock him in a sanitarium so he can recover the mental balance they have destroyed. Son Howard is a handsome, stupid, unprincipled college boy who is always borrowing money, wrecking his father's cars, and trying to lie his way out. Daughter Sara is a handsome, ill-natured poseur who becomes a Communist, falls in love with an agitator, overdraws her allowance of $1,000 a year and spends most of her time making poisonous remarks...