Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Leonard Berry got off to a slow start in life. Tennessee-born son of a Civil War captain, he was orphaned at 7, knocked about as odd-job boy and printer's helper until he was 21, never got to college. He was a Spanish War private, a World War major of engineers, helped organize the American Legion. At 53 he is not only the Southeast's biggest farmer (30,000 acres) but also, since 1907, president of the International Pressmen and Assistants Union and founder-owner of the nation's biggest color label-printing plant...
...other thing is just another musical. Even the color of the name "Coronado," which belongs to a most swanky hotel in Lower California, and the rhythm of Eddie Duchin, a Massachusetts boy who has made good in the grand style, fail to make the picture particularly exciting. There is an adorable collegiate youngster who is everybody's pal and puts tapioca in drain pipes; he doesn't exactly prepossess...
Fellow 4., ill at ease in society, hesitating manner--strictly a country boy--does not smoke--his passion is study; Fellow 5., serious minded, but with a large group of enthusiastic friends . . . listened to with respect . . . perhaps a little too serious...
...fine day. Much oblige, Heavenly Father. The sun shines so pretty. The purtes thang. . . . Hush, son, you talkin like a fool. Hush now, son, old boy. . . . Pore old Capm man. Pore old hoppin and cussin rascal. Make bricks all summer. . . . And, Heavenly Father, who art up yonder, all we got now is bricks. Mom and Violet and Macon and Big Sister and me squattin in corners munchin a brick apiece. Not eem gravy or sweetenin either. . . . Hello, Tooter. How you? . . . Oh, kissin runs in our family. . . . Hello, Shackle. Hidy-do, good-lookin. How you? Oh, I'm all right...
...Proust. Quoting a line from Restif de la Bretonne's licentious memoirs: "How pretty the girls are at Auxerre!" the aged philosopher observed, "I have found myself independently making precisely the same remark . . . though with none of the results that followed in the case of that impressionable boy...