Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test of the Utility Holding Company Act, etc. For another 25 minutes the Justices sat while nearly 100 applicants for permission to practice before the Court were introduced, and sworn in in batches. Then the Court rose. Mr. Van Devanter stopped to shake the proud hand of a page boy. A year's work was done. The Justices of the Supreme Court disappeared between the curtains...
Like the late John Dillinger, Al Brady is an Indiana bad boy who got in trouble young, was let out of jail on parole. Also like Dillinger, he took to cracking banks and shooting police as soon as he got out. At 27, he and his three henchmen-James Dalhover, Clarence Shaffer, Charles Geisking-are wanted for nine stickups, robberies and jail escapes, for murdering an officer in Anderson, another in Indianapolis, a clerk in Piqua, Ohio. Like Dillinger, Brady has staged a spectacular jail break, and last week Brady, Dalhover and Shaffer added a fillip to their record...
Stanley Baldwin ambled into the House of Commons one afternoon last week with the wistful air of a boy in his final day at school. As he had done so many times over so many years, one last time now he "caught the Speaker's eye," stood up to announce that the salaries of Members of Parliament will be raised from ?400 to ?600 ($2,000 to $3,000) a year. From the benches on both sides came shattering applause. For his very last "last word" before retiring from House harness, "the most popular Prime Minister since Balfour" could...
Pick a Star (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) slapsticks the story of the sweet young girl who makes good in Hollywood. In Waterloo, Kans., pretty Cecilia Moore (Rosina Lawrence) wins a beauty contest managed by her boy friend Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley) only to find that the prize money has been stolen. Chagrined to see her humiliated, Joe journeys to Hollywood to try to land her a film job. But the forced landing of an American Airlines plane at Waterloo gives screenstruck Cecilia her chance to meet Cinemactor Rinaldo Lopez (Mischa Auer), fly out to the Coast with him and her noisy...
...along with her tongue out. She was only becoming first across with tongue out. Two postmen took their lunch hour to be first mail-carriers across. Other firsts: the man who pushed a pill box with his nose, the girl who walked the chalk line in the centre, the boy who walked backward the whole...