Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illustrated papers for weeks with every conceivable picture of His late Majesty. Instinctively, out of all the thousands, Englishmen picked one snapshot as their favorite (see cut). Last week began a movement to cast in enduring bronze kindly, paternal King George and the grinning little paint-pot boy who proffered a small, grimy paw to His Majesty in a British shipyard in 1917. "Find that boy!" ordered London editors last week. Soon John Michael Cassidy was found. He turned out to have been in 1917 not the child he looks in the picture but a 16-year-old runt...
...Strongly condemned by resolution, homework for school children in the United Kingdom after its rigors had been movingly conjured up by a Labor M. P. who climaxed, "So I asked my eldest boy about this homework only this morning and he said, 'Father, the House of Commons should consider this slavery at home instead of the slavery in Ethiopia!'" ¶Raised a question so delicate that Foreign Minister Anthony Eden did not trust himself to reply verbally. The question: Is there any international convention which His Majesty's Government could invoke to stop the Argentine Republic from...
...juveniles are the real center of interest, however, and the lead is capably done by Eric Linden as the valedictorian of his class who is really a fine boy but somewhat carried off through reading Swinburne, Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw. Cecillia Parker is the sweetheart who promises to remember him even after he has gone away to Yale...
Declared Dr. Valeria Hopkins Parker, social hygiene specialist: "If a child is old enough to ask questions, it is old enough to get an answer. ... A girl undoubtedly is more popular with boys if she pets; and we must remember that even a feeble-minded girl can pet; she may also become popular, for the boy need never find out she is feeble-minded...
...Hollywood tycoons come to grips over the possession of a boy-actor; the one with the more childish psychology wins...