Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore, in line, I suppose, with your political views, the suggestions you make are extremely reactionary, and would reverse the presumable progress of the last 30 years toward greater and greater freedom for students, more and more of what President Lowell called "self-education", as opposed to school-boy disciplinarian...
...Forty-eight-year-old William F. ("Willie") Hoppe, grey-haired boy wonder of Billiards in 1898, 15-time world champion at 18.2 balkline billiards, three-time champion at 18.1 balkline billiards, current cushion caroms champion, in a challenge match against loud & confident Welker Cochran, to whom he was runner-up in the tournament at Chicago last November (TIME, Dec. 2): the world's championship at three-cushion billiards (in which the cue ball must hit at least three cushions before touching the second object ball), a title for which he has campaigned diligently since...
Died. John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, 67, two-term Mayor of New York City (1918-25); of a heart attack; in Queens. A farm boy from upstate New York, he left home at 19, worked as a common laborer before he studied law. Boosted from a city magistrate's insignificance by Tammany and Hearst in their effort to defeat Reformist John Purroy Mitchel, he won the mayoralty election in 1917, fought with his party on transit policy. Finally repudiated by Tammany, which preferred James J. Walker's lighter touch, Hylan ran against Walker and lost in the primaries...
...Wodehouse-Little, Brown ($2). Steward Peasemarch takes over while Valet Jeeves has a well-earned vacation. DUST OVER THE RUINS-Helen Ashton -Macmillan ($2.50). How to make a dull winter into something worse, or love in an archeological camp, with a vampish wife setting an old man, a boy and her surly husband on their respective ears. JOURNEY INTO FREEDOM-Klaus Mann -Knopf ($2.50). Story of a German girl who leaves her lover and the safety of exile to go back to martyrdom in Nazi-land; by Thomas Mann's actor-editor-author son. Non-Fiction...
Among his books of poems have been, "A Boy's Will," "North of Boston," "Mountain Interval," "New Hampshire," "West Running Brook," and "A Lone Striker...