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Word: boye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Murderer French, 30, a mild-mannered, life-long home-town boy, employed by the State Board of Equalization, married and with one child, had walked into McCracken's kitchen where McCracken, 36, married, was eating supper with two girls, Miss Donna Cornell, 27, who assisted him in publishing his mimeographed Modoc County Daily Mail, and a friend, Miss Evelyn Olin, 27. McCracken's wife, a nurse, was at work at the Alturas General Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newspaper Murder | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...known as a "Local Girl", as even "Local Man" involved in some slight way with the case, so much the better. Pictures of hem, with sad, proud smiles, hurrying down their stairs, into autos, on trains, etc., are rushed through engraving plants onto your breakfast table. Soon negro house boy suspects, stern but kindly judges, and lawyers will parade by. It's almost a relief to turn back a few more pages until we come to a placid, bovine girl, but one whom we know is good to her parents, labelled "Hard Working Member of Dance Committee...

Author: By Arabi Pasha, | Title: Off Key | 3/31/1937 | See Source »

Paula Echols, 15, was in an English class with 20 other students when she saw the building shake and the roof fall in. Then Paula saw her teacher's leg protruding from a rumbling pile of brick and mortar. Pinned beneath her desk, Paula heard the boy across the aisle screaming for help. Another boy dragged her out through the window-frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Greatest Blessings | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...middle-class English parents -his father was a piano salesman and his mother kept a boardinghouse-Noel gave early indications of that instability which marks the born actor. He had tantrums, enjoyed working himself into hysterics over fancied disasters. As a boy he had a good voice, occasionally sang anthems in church: "but I hated doing this because the lack of applause depressed me." At 10 he played his first professional part, in an all-children cast, and knew why he had been born. From then on it was simply a question of finding better and better parts, of having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fair-haired Boy | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...poor little rich boy, in love with his governess, tries to help untangle her unhappy affairs, only succeeds in getting her fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pre-War | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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