Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Equally critical of movie stars, Miss Marsters termed them as "talkative . . . not handsome and without glamour." No real man would be a movie actor," she expanded. Of the numerous famous characters of the sports world she has interviewed, Max Baer is tops. But even the popular play-boy prize-fighter comes in for his share of Marsters' abuse as being "dizzy" and "punch-drunk...
...trio walking into Jim's place after the beating administered to Yale Saturday night were discussing the meet and the principal star, and the hysteria which had been aroused was well summed up by one of them when he said, "Boy, I'm telling you, Hutter is next to God tonight." He was probably not the only one who would have said just about the same thing, for Harvard was more emotionly aroused after that clash than they have been since the already historical 14-14 tie with Princeton...
...weighmaster one day that he was being short-weighted, got into a quarrel about it, knocked the weighmaster down, was fired. His fellows retaliated by organizing a union, electing young Murray president, threatening a strike. Up, up, up the Labor ladder he climbed until at 34 the boy from Lanarkshire became a master of debate who knew more about the coal industry than most operators, was vice president of United Mine Workers, biggest union in the land. When U.M.W.'s President John L. Lewis prepared to risk the future of his C.I.O. last summer in a great drive...
Fired by the Old Bolsheviks' confessions, the Supreme Court Judge's son and his sycophant decided to filch Soviet military secrets, skip to Germany where they would sell these to the Nazis, then take in the night spots of Europe. When his mother interfered, Mother's Boy Lintin slapped her, bashed in her head with a hammer, after which he and Sycophant Sokolov toasted the matricide in wine...
...could, thought no more about it. But on one of his weekly visits to a neighboring town he saw her again. This time she had tried to commit suicide. When she lost her job Dr. David took care of her, finally brought her home as governess for his little boy, who was very sensitive. Leni, for that was her name, was a great success with the little boy, but did not make a hit with Mrs. Newcome. Mrs. Newcome hated music; Leni loved it, and the doctor encouraged her to play the piano. Not even readers were much surprised when...