Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven, a runaway (from Father Drunogie's orphanage) in his 'teens, Joe Howard had been on the boards for 60 years. His runaway took him to St. Louis where, still in short pants, he got a job with McNish, Johnson & Slavin's Refined Minstrels, singing A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother. This job was the making of him. He became a protege of the late, bully-built William Muldoon (later T.R.'s sparring partner), who was then touring the minstrel circuit with Charley Mitchell, the little man who wouldn't stay down...
...inside story of 14 national Republican Conventions, where he sat in on many a smoke-filled hotel-room confab, with such politicians as Pennsylvania's Boies Penrose and the late President Warren G. Harding. Politician Butler's chief usefulness was as a kind of glorified errand boy who carried messages between one faction and another, wrote the first draft of political platforms (usually discarded), delivered statements to the press. It was Theodore Roosevelt who gave him his nickname of "Nicholas Miraculous...
...nimble Ohio farm boy named Henry M. Barnhart was operating a balky steam shovel, grubbing gravel from the Kenton, Ohio, pits for the roadbed of the new Chicago & Atlantic Railroad (now Erie). Irritated by repeated breakdowns of his crude machine, he built a model of a better one, showed it to farm machinery maker Edward Huber. Practical Mechanic Huber knew a good thing when he saw it. He got together with Inventor Barnhart and Hayman George W. King, founded the Marion Steam Shovel Co., began turning out the "Barnhart shovel...
...stories in which the reader meets, briefly but none too briefly, about twice that many strictly American heels. Some are heels because they are young and dumb, some because they are trapped and tired. Some are pure heels, like the prep schoolteacher who enjoys frightening a 13-year-old boy. The Hollywood heels are the worst, comprising several of O'Hara's most excruciating women and zoological men. The author's nearest approach to liking (not very near) is reserved for: an old barber, a mild, hopeless Phi Beta Kappa, a prostitute, two husbands in love with...
Hardly a man is now alive who remembers Dan Beard except as the be-buckskinned, gimlet-eyed, weather-resistant Grand Old Man of the Boy Scouts. Yet his autobiography gives only eleven pages to his career as founder and National Commissioner of the Boy Scouts. Apparently "Uncle" Dan thinks his 30 years of Scouting is altogether too well known-it "seems to have wiped my past history off the slate," he complains. His picturesque record of a Vanishing American, written with a sort of grizzled spryness, covers his first 60 years, before he joined the Boy Scouts...