Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chance to play his own tune on the great harp of an audience. And a harp is what his audience becomes. So infectious is his gifted gab that the soberest observers have found themselves swaying to the roll of it, while the Chandler fans yell "Tell it, Happy boy! Oh, tell...
...winner faints, cusses or thanks Providence the audience hears none of it, because NBC dares not take the responsibility for airing what goes on at rainbow's end. In Woodcarver Drouin's case, Ben Grauer reported that he had said: "I ought to buy that boy some lollipops." Next week the winner was a preacher, the Rev. W. H. Lash of Salisbury, N. C. At the parsonage, a female voice answered, showed no excitement over the message; replied that the Reverend was not at home. The Reverend won $1,000 just the same. If no one had answered...
Engaged. Oliver La Farge II, 38, archeologist, author who gave fine publicity to New Mexico in his Pulitzer-Prizewinning Laughing Boy; and Consuelo Otille ("Billie") Baca, 26, daughter of Mrs. Marguerite Pendaries Baca, onetime Secretary of State for New Mexico; in Santa...
...intelligent college boy of 20 read Dale Carnegie's book How to Win Friends and Influence People, and suddenly turned from a shy, introspective, seclusive, sensitive individual to an excited, superficially friendly, overly confident egoist. Aware of his new found power, he developed a plan whereby he would relieve working men of their jobs for a week or two so that they might have a vacation...
Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers Cocks, Lord Somers, Deputy Chief Scout of Britain's Boy Scouts, issued a war order to all scouts to wear their uniforms, himself appeared in the House of Lords in Scout shorts. Commented the London Evening Standard: "His costume aroused little comment. Ever since Lord De la Warr entered the House during the last war in the bell-bottomed trousers of an able-bodied seaman, their lordships have learnt to take many strange uniforms in their stride...