Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once there was a boy. This was very long ago. The boy went to a very nice school where you called the principal "Father". He got a good education there, he met Hooker Beane, the son of the great international banker, and Jeremy Sloan, the heir to the great sugar-beet fortune, and he roomed with Weston, the brilliant young gentleman-rider...
...came to Harvard after he graduated. He aspired to a scholastic career. All his friends laughed at him Freshman year. They would go shooting out nights in tuxedoes and the boy would stay home. They would wolf highballs at the Ritz-fair and the boy would shut up his books at midnight and have a glass of milk at Hayes-Bickford...
...only events that Yale managed to take against Jack Moakley's boys Saturday were the high jump, the broad jump, the pole vault and the 35 pound weight. The Elis will be right in the running in all of these events on Saturday, with Bill Handing, the star pole vaulter, being pretty sure of taking his event. The star Eli's principal opposition will come from the Crimson's Win Pettingell, who, while at Exeter, once beat Harding, then an Andover star. But since that time the Yale boy has stepped out and he did 13' 9" at the Millrose...
EAST in East and West is West, but Jack Armstrong, the All-American boy who delights young fry from coast to coast on the an gets in and out of trouble in the East as well as in the West His adventures know no boundaries. American Racketeers or Chinese smugglers, all are his meat, For that reason another Phi Beta Kappa finds work in radio. She is Betty Ito, diminutive Chicagoan who earned her key at the University of Chicago. Betty is Japanese by ancestry, American by birth, but she plays a Chinese role in Jack Aumstrong's show...
Helen, the problem child, was boy-crazy from the start, but not so crazy that she miscalculated her own value. Her first marriage, to a fat old copper tycoon, got her out of Silver Bow to the happy hunting grounds of the East. There she had a series of affairs, a series of marriages, at book's end was still going strong as a problem child in her fifties...