Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Methodical Author McGuffey whistled for the neighbors' children, read them each selection before he included it. In the monosyllabic First Reader, small scholars read of the lame dog, cured by a veterinary, which expressed its gratitude by searching out another lame dog for the same treatment. A Kind Boy freed his caged bird; a Cruel Boy pulled the legs from flies. A Chimney Sweep, coming upon a gold watch, manfully overcame temptation, was rewarded when his employer provided him with an education. Only grim note in this moral feast was the Tease, who frightened a playmate into insanity...
...Gerofsky. He spoke to her secretary, left a message which later caused Miss Harlow to call surprised Mr. Gerofsky. Last week the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. arrived at a satisfactory settlement of its suit to make disgusted Mr. Gerofsky pay $20.35 for the long-distance call. Said Furnace Boy Duggan: "Gee, I'm sorry, Mr. Gerofsky. It was just an idea I had and I guess it wasn't so good...
Spiritualists, however, claim to know much about the afterlife through their contact with the departed. To their body of belief was added this week a notable book supposedly transmitted from the Spirit World by a New England farm boy named Wilfred Brandon who claims that the Revolutionary War ended his earthly life after 19 years in 1781. Incarnation, a Plea from the Masters*; was "dictated" by means of automatic writing to Edith Ellis, a playwright and onetime actress, now in her 70's and author of a current London success called The Lady...
Dame Laura's book shows off her direct, robust sincerity. A product of her childhood, she tells a story of much violence, dismisses in a sentence a circus fire in which "a sailor and nine Boy Scouts were burned alive." Her paintings have the quality her childhood instructors tried in vain to cure her of-a heavy hand. Her drawing is strong. The point of her pictures is always heartily obvious. Now at 59, she is a highly respectable figure in the British art world with her personal trademarks of a sombrero and velvet jacket, her hair...
ODYSSEY OF THE ISLANDS-Carl N. Taylor-Scribner ($3). Description of a journey through rarely-traveled parts of the Philippines, illustrated by photographs. Author Taylor was killed in New Mexico last February by his house boy, a member of the Penitentes (TIME. March...