Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator felt strong enough to permit the bringing to light in court last week of two attempts to assassinate him years ago. Both were made by natives of Georgia, the part of Russia in which the Dictator was born. The first of these attempts to put Home-Town Boy Stalin out of the way was in 1933, the second in 1935 - according to the October 29 issue of the Tiflis newspaper, Zarya Vostoka ("The Dawn of the East"), which last week reached Moscow. Both these at tempts on the life of Our Sun, the Moscow press continued to keep secret...
...character of Director Koslofski was a damaging caricature of Josef von Sternberg. Trade papers tittered that Stand-In laughed at the motion picture industry. The last is true, but the laughter is large, warming and contagious. Stand-in is not an acrid satire like Once in a Lifetime or Boy Meets Girl, but a panel of broad, sure dimensions. It shows the bottom as well as the top, emphasizing that the vast army of skilled film technicians, the grips and pincers, the cutters and carpenters, are more pertinent to picture production than the overpublicized screwballs behind the big desks. Much...
Goodwill. At the top of Manhattan's Empire State Building one day last week eleven young Britishers launched into a hymn and an Elizabethan madrigal. The English Boy Choristers were about to go on a six-month "Goodwill Tour" of the U. S., their expenses of some $25,000 paid by the Church of England. Aged from 11 to 13, the boys were chosen from 125 applicants, trained by Carlton Borrow in the London Choir School...
...Philadelphia. A well-trained boys' choir should study together, sing together every day, live together in as complete harmony as they sing. Last April Rev. Dr. John Mockridge, ruddy high-church rector of Philadelphia's patrician St. James's Episcopal Church, had 30 boy sopranos selected from 97 applicants in Philadelphia public schools, put them at his congregation's expense in the swank Episcopal Academy on City Line Avenue. Further weeding brought the group down to 20. Dr. Mockridge taught the boys the Episcopal service, had them attend his church in a body every Sunday during...
Winston Churchill's Great Contemporaries is a collection of 21 essays, product of eight years of scattered writings, on various figures of importance in recent European political history, by England's irrepressible bad boy of politics. He is soundest in his estimates of older statesmen and most informative in his reminiscences of personal contacts with World War generals. But as Author Churchill approaches the present his passionate conservatism leads him increasingly astray from accepted opinion. He defends as a "forlorn" patriot the opèra bouffe Boris Savinkov (prerevolutionary Russian spy who worked both for the Tsarist police...