Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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State was a Mrs. Agatha Mackison, who said that the previous Saturday night she, Saunders, an exercise boy named Schaeffer and one Evelyn Sliwinski, fun-loving, 24-year-old wife of a tailor, had made a round of roadhouses. Afterwards, according to Mrs. Mackison, Mrs. Sliwinski had been ordered out of Saunders' car, knocked down and deliberately run over twice...
...three men who founded Groton, Billings ("Mr. B.") and Gardner ("Mr. G.") are dead. Endicott Peabody at 78 is as quick of wit and pink of cheek as a man of 60. Every boy and master knows that the Rector misses nothing, that his word is law. Dr. Peabody still coaches one of the intramural crews, still rides horseback. Sometimes Mrs. Peabody rides with him. A handsome, fragile lady, in black velvet dog collar and pearls, the Rector's wife has been a Peabody all her life and the Groton colors, red, white & black, were the colors...
Walter Pidgeon as Nordoff is the perfect artist--highly emotional, moody, egoistical, but a boy at heart. Ruth Weston plays Mrs. Nordoff with such charm and mature talent that she runs off with the play. Glenn Anders is given all too little to do, but succeeds in playing a manager who doesn't cavort about with the extravagant boisterousness we have been forced to suffer from the run of managers, performing the role of Nordoff's manager and man Friday with quiet charm which is a grand relief from the extravagant boisterousness which most players lend to such a part...
...anteroom at royal births to make absolutely certain no foundling was palmed off on the English people (TIME, Sept. 1, 1930). Last week Sir John stayed downstairs, the doctors and nurses being considered witnesses enough to the authenticity of Marina's child. At 2:05 a.m. a boy was born. The doctors took ten minutes to make sure it was hale and unblemished. Then they drew up their bulletin...
...best trick consists of making a shoe knock a paper bag off the head of an assistant named George on its way to falling for a ringer; and a bronco-rider named Sol Schneider who has spent his life in Brooklyn where his experience with horses began as lead-boy in a Coney Island pony ranch. Manhattan rodeo audiences, whose familiarity with bronco-riding has been gained from newsreels which show riders only as they are falling off, are inclined to suppose that to fall is the object of the event. Consequently, Cowboy Schneider became a hero with the gallery...