Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China, met the suave and elegant young Phillips in London, took him to Peking as second secretary at the U. S. legation. Because China was so far away, Billy Phillips resigned that job, gave up his seniority, returned to Washington, started over again at the bottom with an office boy's salary as an assistant to the Third Assistant Secretary of State. That was in 1907. Within two years he had won such esteem in the Department that he was sent to London as first Secretary of the Embassy, a doubly important post because Ambassador Whitelaw Reid...
...turned to Photographer Miller, remarked: "Now here is something special you might want to see. The next one is a Caesarean section."* Photographer Miller clicked eagerly while the patient was anesthetized, her abdomen opened, her baby drawn out feet first; followed through while the baby, a healthy 7 lb. boy, was removed, washed, footprinted for identification. When Editor Pooley shuffled through the results of the morning's work, he immediately pounced on the Caesarean pictures as most newsworthy. Well he knew that if he published them many a shocked busybody and upright citizen would berate him soundly...
Richard is the boy who wants to right the wrongs of the Social System in a crushing valedictory address, which is interrupted, amid great applause, at the end of a stereotyped preamble. A brilliant, poetic idealist, he gets into trouble with the father of his girl (Cecilia Parker) because he has given her verses by that renegade, Algernon Charles Swinburne. When he believes that she has spurned his love, Richard samples his first kisses and his first drinks in company with a fast-stepping lady from New Haven, who wears flounces, high-laced shoes, low-slung garters...
...floor of the St. Louis Merchants Exchange where he is currently reported making his third fortune after his second bankruptcy, Jesse Livermore Sr. was notified of the shooting. Silently he and his third wife took plane for California. On the second day doctors operated to drain fluid from the boy's pierced lung, still dared not touch the bullet. Uncertain whether he would live, police jailed Mrs. Livermore for attempted murder. Up & down the hospital corridor paced Jesse Livermore Sr., swearing that if his son died he would "spend every cent to see that she gets what is coming...
...Boy Meets Girl, Happy appears only in a short cinema sequence. In real life Happy is 6-month-old Judith Ann Roy, daughter of Producer Abbott's niece...