Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roof just lifted up. Then the walls fell out and the roof fell in," said William C. Shaw, the superintendent. "It sounded like dynamite," said a boy named Barber on the football team. ''It blew up like a tin can with a firecracker inside it," said an oil field worker. Across the plains for miles around, horrified observers on shanty porches, at oil derricks, in automobiles, thought of a hurricane, an earthquake, a battle, as at 3:05 last Thursday afternoon the high-school wing of the Consolidated School at New London, Tex., suddenly blew to pieces...
...atmosphere most conducive to a protest for peace. On the other hand, the peace strikes of other years had been rendered futile by the ridicule and indifference of a Harvard community that considered the strike paradoxically militant. In 1935, the spring-feverish antics of Hitler-mustachioed students clad in boy scout uniforms easily outshone the vain attempts of the peace lectures...
Significance of the Social Service Committee's activity which includes, the direction of boys' clubs, athletic teams, and Boy Scouts lies in the fact that it is the only direct and continuous contact of a University department through which the outside can get a good idea of Harvard...
...town, stanch Publisher Taylor died in 1894. The paper was continued by his son Ward and daughter Birdie. Commercially moribund, Jefferson now saw its population shrink to 2,515 by 1910. The city still had an air of faded grandeur, however, sufficient to impress young Barry Benefield, a local boy who later made his home town the scene of best-selling Valiant is the Word for Carrie...
...West Palm Beach Criminal Court fortnight ago in his capacity as deputy sheriff and amateur criminologist, muscular Author Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe (G-Man, Knockout) saw 14-year-old Anthony Anastor brought up to be sentenced for stealing a sailboat, persuaded the judge to let him give the boy another chance as a member of the Coe household. Last week Criminologist Coe returned home one day to find his protege gone with his $2,000 speedboat, two pistols, $110 cash. "I played fair with you, didn't I, Bud?" sighed he, facing the boy in court again. "How fair...