Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Byrns was not a great Speaker in the tradition of "Tsar" Reed, "Uncle Joe" Cannon and "Nick" Longworth. But the same big, warm heart which kept him from giving the unwieldy House the iron-fisted discipline it often needs made the onetime Tennessee farm boy one of the best-liked Speakers the House has ever had. Last week the nation's statesmen forgot his amiable, easy-going leadership, paid heartfelt tribute to his honest simplicity, blamed his death on the conscientious industry with which he strived to fulfill his duties. "He served his State and the nation," mourned President...
...last week one St. Mark's boy, Frederick William Hubbell of the fourth generation of a wealthy Des Moines real estate and insurance family was dead of infantile paralysis. Seventeen other St. Mark's boys were known to be stricken, eight of them after they were removed from school. All are suspected of having taken an unseasonable swim, like paralyzed Franklin Roosevelt, in chilly water. Four of the seventeen showed some degree of paralysis. How many other children were taken sick last week in other schools and homes where public inquisitiveness pried less sharply, will not be known...
...purely by chance that Lawrence Gellert became seriously interested in Negro songs and problems. He had been a newspaper reporter, a secretary in Manhattan to the late Undertaker Frank E. Campbell, then a chorus boy in a Marilyn Miller production and a bush in The Miracle, a role which left him time to help with the publicity, sell programs in the lobby. The Miracle was in San Francisco when Gellert fell ill, left the company, went to Asheville, N. C. to convalesce. One of his first sights there was the corpse of a Negro two days dead dangling from...
Born inappropriately in Boston, Dexter William Fellows was named after a race horse and a favorite uncle. Like every small boy he fell flat under the spell of his first circus; unlike others, he never recovered. When, barely grown up, he got a chance to join Pawnee Bill's "Historic Wild West" as pressagent, he jumped at it with both feet. Once in his niche, he was never tempted to seek a higher pinnacle. The late Ivy Lee, then a hard-working but undistinguished Manhattan newshawk, gave Fellows the benefit of his own ambitious advice about becoming a tycoon...
...elegant wing of late Renaissance sculpture which at first sight appears to be a copy of some portrait of Marcus Aurelius with its finely shaped head, its mass of close curls and prominent brooding eyes, all familiar from his equestrian statue as emperor and his marble bust as a boy...