Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke had escaped by special train from Shantung Province when the Japanese marched in fortnight ago, blasting the ducal seat near the Sacred Mount Taishan, where some 10,000 descendants of the Sage are buried. In 1936 the Confucian Society of Japan got the boy Duke to come to Tokyo and dedicate a shrine to the Sage. Ever since there have been rumors that Japan was persuading the Duke to let her set him up as puppet ruler of China...
...WELL OF ARARAT - Emmanuel Varandyan-Donbleday, Doran ($2.50). Brooding melodrama, against a colorful pre-War Persian village background, in which an introspective boy plays a passionate part in wrecking his uncle's marriage...
After watching a grocery boy deliver a package of thing which he rather unromantically concluded were probably groceries, the Vagabond turned around briskly, and blinded by the sudden darkness, proceeded to run his finger up and down the card Catalogue until he found it was the back of a girl's checked cost. "Pardon me," he stammered, "I was looking for Gini." "Well, she's not here," came the answer...
...there is another equality important frame-work in which workers are not only welcome, but sorely needed: the Boy Scout enrollment for Cambridge is half what it should be because of the lack of capable leaders. The troops now in existence are part of Cambridge parishes, since despite the non-sectarian nature of the organization, it is felt that children need more fundamental training than the art of making fires without matches. Yet there is room in every church for additional troops if leaders can be found. It is the hope of Mr. J. W. Clements, Cambridge Scout executive, that...
...promising junior players to detect, if possible, embryonic Davis Cuppers. For, blushing unseen among the juniors might be another Donald Budge, Robert Riggs, Frank Parker or Joseph Hunt-all of whom started playing first-rate tennis before they were 18 (junior-division age limit). The age limit for the boys' division is 15, but there is no law against a boy or a junior playing in an older division. Vincent Richards won the U. S. men's doubles championship with William T. Tilden in 1918 when he was a boy of 15, and the following year won both...