Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself in a posi-tion to become the biggest racket-squasher in the U. S. Thomas Dewey's handsome, foxy face has grown familiar to New Yorkers, but when it appeared in the newspapers in June 1935 few would have recognized it without a caption. An Owosso, Mich, boy whose grandfather was second cousin to the Admiral, he had grown up in his father's newspaper and print shop, studied at the University of Michigan, with singing lessons on the side. When he migrated to Manhattan in 1923 he was not sure whether he wanted...
Charity contributions of the Student Council amounting to $1000 for the current year as opposed to $900 last year were announced by Walter H. Page '37 last night. 1936-37 Cambridge Red Cross $250 Family Welfare of Cambridge 50 Boy Scouts 100 Y.M.C.A. 50 Salvation Army 150 Avon Home 25 East End Union 25 Margaret Fuller House 25 Cambridge Neighborhood House 25 Boston Emergency Campaign 250 Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students 50 Total...
Charles Hayden lived quietly at Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza hotel, never married. His comparatively modest interest in charity began when he became interested in the Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New York. He learned enough of recreational work to want to contribute to a few social service agencies, in 1926 gave $100,000 for the site of an uptown Manhattan boys' club. "The businessmen . . . will not have accomplished their full duty," once said reticent Bachelor Hayden, "until there is a Boys' Club in every town . . . in which [boys] may have their God-given right to play...
...years and still rides his 50,000 Colorado acres in sub-zero weather, could recall the time when nothing except long-horn cattle roamed the range. And presented to the convention was Rev. L. R. Millican, 84, a wrinkled, white-thatched Baptist circuit-rider who as a boy knew General Sam Houston, father of Texas independence...
...refuge from reality she took to books. Her heterodox hair and her heterogeneous reading made her "a rather embittered little philosopher" at 16. But Romance soon reared its tousled head again, in the person of an Eton boy on vacation, with whom Elinor ate candy and discussed the classics. On a visit to Paris, a little later, she was beset by a passionate Frenchman, who took her to the zoo, thrilled her to the marrow by whispering "Belle Tigresse!" (beautiful tigress) in her ear. From that adventure Elinor dates her hunger for tiger skins, of which she afterwards had seven...