Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both lads rose in the world. From schoolteacher and invoice clerk, MacDonald became in 1924 Britain's first Laborite Prime Minister. Grant started as a baker's boy in an Edinburgh biscuit company, became general manager of McVitie & Price, Ltd. and wealthy enough to give Scotland a National Library...
...Because I was glad to be alive," he wrote, "I bought more handkerchiefs than I needed. . . . Another shell broke in the street, and this time we heard a boy screaming six or eight times, each time weaker than the last. . . . 'Show me some scarfs,' I said to the clerk...
Pittsburgh is famed more for steel than for music. When the Pittsburgh Symphony gave its first concert eleven years ago, it was arrested for breaking the Sabbath. Four years later a home-town boy named Antonio Modarelli began to conduct. Modarelli had studied extensively in Germany, composed there two operas, Hanns Frei and Sakuntala. His Ocean Flight, a ballet-pantomime about Lindbergh helped make him the only American in the Society of German Composers...
...auditorium stage of Washington's new National Museum last week before a battery of microphones stood 16 nervous boys and girls. They were finalists in the 13th annual Louisville Courier-Journal National Spelling Bee in which 15 other newspapers participated. They were about to produce the closest practical approximation of the "best speller in the U. S." Representative Lyle Boren of Oklahoma was standing with the judges. Morose, georgette, cited, ingenuity, questionnaire, accessible, meringue, gudgeon, insoluble, parliamentary, aphorism, olfactory and lineaments cleared the stage of all but three. Then the only remaining boy, Angelo Mangieri of Hoboken...
...enameled operating-room tray, the fetus seemed to be that of a boy. It measured seven inches and had patches of infant's down on its torso. It lacked a face, had part of a brain. Its right foot had six webbed toe buds, its left foot four. Its arms, fastened to its sides, had webbed finger buds. Fingers and toes had rudiments of nails. As Barbara Stobie went to her bed in a ward Pathologist Warren Clair Hunter of the University of Oregon medical school took the monstrous fetus to his laboratory to learn what was inside...