Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the first glass has slid down and the boy has brought the second in, even the very nicest of them are apt to pose the purely philosophical question, "Are we doing right by our boys to let them go on losing like this? Shouldn't something be done about it?" And then the man behind the Herald Tribune says, "Do you suppose they're getting a really sound grounding in fundamentals?" After this the third one over in the window rouses himself violently from his lethargy by drawing on his almost dead cigar and states...
...saxophonists swung into "Honey-suckle Rose." "Whoa-boy," yelled Fats, "the joint is jumpin'." He explained this expression by saying that it meant a Harlem night spot crammed with well-liquored joy-seekers, with a swing band jammin' it. He further explained that the Big Apple, which he is featuring on the RKO-Boston stage with his band, originated not in the South, but right in the Savoy ballroom in New York City...
Coshocton Boy. Headquarters of the A. F. of L. is a seven-story brick-&-limestone building in an unpretentious section of Washington at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 9th Street. The slow elevators, the middle-aged employes give the place the atmosphere of an old government bureau. Outside in the sun on benches flanking the entrance sit visiting unionists waiting to buttonhole their leaders as they leave the building. On the top floor in a corner office protected by two women secretaries sits William Green. Among his books are such correspondence school volumes as Training of the Voice, Analysis...
...Westbrook Pegler: "The case of Mr. Pegler, 'that peril to placidity.' is simplest of all. Peg was bitten by an income tax while still a boy a few years...
...play's situation entangles a boy in love with boats and a lady Ph.D. immersed in case histories. Christine Lawrence, virgin psychologist (Doris Daiton), meets young Skipper Hayden Chase (Henry Fonda), who distrusts learning and takes out fishing parties on the cutter which he bought after leaving Dartmouth. Despite the disparity of their interests, they fall in love, spending a night together when he jams his boat on a convenient sand bar. Love triumphs temporarily when Hayden takes a job in the city and marriage follows. Then their incompatibility leads them through quarrels to the brink of divorce...