Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sylvia Scarlett (RKO) reveals the interesting fact that Katharine Hepburn is better looking as a boy than as a woman. Just why, in the plot, she has to become a boy is never clear; it is something about getting over to England with her father, Henry Scarlett (Edmund Gwenn). who wants to start life anew as a lace-smuggler. But once Miss Hepburn has her trousers on, and she and her inept, ingenuous miscreant of a parent have met Gary Grant, a cockney adventurer with smuggled diamonds in his bootheels. Sylvia Scarlett becomes good entertainment...
Youngest Manhattan financial editor is Julius George Berens of Hearst's American. Now 31, short, swart, he entered his profession as a newsboy, has been office boy, stenographer, reporter, columnist (under the pseudonym "Broadan Wall"). Wasted on the majority of its 600,000 straphanging readers is the Evening Journal's alert financial section run by able, aggressive Leslie Gould...
...fifteen year old secondary school boy who had been assigned the writing of a Christmas poem was still struggling at eleven O'clock the night before the poem was due, with two or three lame lines. Finally, having searched in vain for acceptable synonyms, he sagely remarked that he considered the meaning more important than the metre. I agreed and, as he trudged off to bed, I reflected upon some reading that I had just done in the works of an author with an extraordinary facility for rhyming. This particular author is scintillating, facetious, and resourceful, but my conclusion...
...mind, or whether it be by the blazing of new trails of thought by rigorous and logical analysis, then their task certainly cannot be properly conceived. At present my impression is that certainly sent my impression is that the light-hearted, superficial but clever boy, given to extremes in thought and dress, is overrated and that the immature but serious boy struggling honestly to express in unadorned English now ideas, and trying always to appraise them judiciously, is underrated for lack of appreciation of what the youth conceives to be the basic purpose of writing. The question in its last...
...world's unburied dead. Still alive at 86, he retired eight years ago, now lives in senile seclusion on his French estate at Balincourt. To pacifists the single-handed murderer of millions, to Reds a mummified museum-piece of capitalism, to fellow-tycoons a poor old rich boy, Zaharoff remains a juicy prey for some future historian. Much has been said and written about him during his long life, but most of the facts remain conjectural...