Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past year can be traced, like so many others in Hollywood, principally to a misspent youth. Too independent to follow his father's profession of public accountant, he ran away from school at 14, earned his living for five years as cab driver, lifeguard, reporter, tile setter, office boy, bank clerk. Where an orderly schooling might have refined, this helter-skelter existence served to aggravate the amazing accent of an illiterate Hell's Kitchen ragamuffin which is now his principal financial asset. Stander's first important cinema role was in The Scoundrel (1935). His raucous, angry voice...
...Fiat, fiat, fiat!* From a seaside resort Bunting, who said he had been a scenario writer in Hollywood, announced he was retaining counsel, would try to prove the Bishop wrong. Admitting he had his parents' money, he said: "In the past it may be I was a naughty boy, but there are lots of sons who have been naughty boys...
...oldest boy, had married a hard working farm girl and was doing well with a place down the road. Ralph had two years of agricultural school, married a schoolteacher and was doing well with a big place out West. Harvey, the youngest, was doing well at a job in the city...
...baby came alone. Elzire's babies should come one by one. Her normal life has been so upset and changed by the birth of the Quintuplets. My new son looks very much like the Quints, but he is much bigger (8 lb.). He's a fine healthy boy with brown eyes and dark hair. Elzire believes a child is the gift of God. The Ontario Government doesn't give her much credit for anything! She believes God intends her to endure the pains and she lets God's will be done...
...murder he committed 17 years ago, he tries to lay the ghost by telling the story of his life. But it is less a story than a one-sided conversation, a kind of soliloquery which wanders, digresses, returns again & again to the problem: why should this little boy have grown up to be a murderer? Author Sandemose's eccentrically concentric chronicle is impressively, sometimes oppressively, realistic...