Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, following the Canadian pilgrimage to see King Edward dedicate the Vimy Ridge memorial in France (TIME, Aug. 3). Unexpectedly His Majesty arrived and was shouldering his way unannounced through the mass of Dominion veterans when they recognized him with shouts of "Oh boy, the King! Good old Neddy!" slapped their King-Emperor on the back, vigorously wrung his hand...
Late last month a 21-year-old West Virginia mother, who had had two previous children, unknowingly bore her third while easing herself over a slop jar. Her husband unwittingly emptied the jar into the backhouse. There, 40 minutes later, Dr. Bittinger found an 8-lb. boy, cold and quiet but still alive. Commented Dr. Bittinger: "If this baby survives, it will have a fine history, especially if it runs for President...
...Albany's Charter Day parade came to a momentary halt, a moppet in white scampered up to New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, asked: "Will you please sign your name on my pants?" While the crowd gawped, Governor Lehman squiggled his signature across the boy's bottom...
...Treasurer in most old-line New England companies is the real boss. Boss Dumaine started as an office boy in Amoskeag's Boston office in 1880, rose not only in Amoskeag but in Boston's Old Colony Trust Co. Two-fisted and frugal, Treasurer Dumaine looked a looming 1928 deficit in the eye, turned down a $42,000,000 offer for Amoskeag's plant and assets, promised: "I am ready to do all possible, institute every economy, shoulder every responsibility and stand every criticism, to carry...
...reputation as a bad man are largely in vain. Instead of a portrait of a bold gunman defying the law, readers are likely to think of Bass as a poor illiterate devil who was constantly falling into traps, robbing empty trains, making friends with spies. A tall Indiana boy, an orphan at 13, Bass was caught up in the social chaos that followed the Civil War, drifted South in Reconstruction days, worked in a Mississippi sawmill, before he became involved in crooked horse racing in Texas. In his early career the unpopularity of the State Government, supported by Federal troops...