Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heiress decide to part forever: East is East and West is West. This scrap of traveler's lore is hardly made to seem more stimulating or original by the events leading up to the renunciation scene, in which Dmitri effects a six-months' rise from rickshaw-boy to international financier while his inamorata is gracefully rejecting the countersuit of a flaccid young American (Fred Keating...
Born in Fredericia, Denmark and orphaned early, Paul Haakon Longreen was adopted by Christ Nielson Panduoro, a bachelor who had made money in the embroidery business. Christ Panduoro took Paul Haakon to San Francisco, had him study dancing for his health although the boy disliked it. When they returned to Denmark the 9-year-old was put in the Royal Opera Ballet School. The "elevation" (leaps and jumps) at which he is expert today he learned in the rigorous oldtime manner, practicing in heavy harness which when it was removed made him feel more airy. In 1924 Christ Panduoro lost...
Always trying to settle down to peaceful pursuits, the boy took part in a drive of 3,000 longhorns over the famed Chisholm trail, caught measles on the way, killed an Indian and five Mexicans, afterwards wrote of one of the killings: "I was going to shoot him again when he begged and held up his hands. I could not shoot a man, even a treacherous Mexican, begging and down. Besides, I knew he would die anyway...
...Hardin's prejudices were inflamed when he heard that Yankee "Wild Bill" killed only Southerners, they got along well until Hardin once made too much noise while bowling and "Wild Bill" arrested him. Getting the drop on the marshal, Hardin cursed him as one who would shoot a boy in the back. Waiting to be killed, Hickok merely said gravely: "Little Arkansas, you have been wrongly informed." No one knows why "Wild Bill" always called Hardin "Little Arkansas." They became friends again, but that night Hardin lost prestige by killing a cowpuncher. He only regained it when he killed...
...author broods over the career of a dead kinsman, Cousin Micajah, who loved the girl his brother loved and joined Fremont's expedition to California because "he did not wish to complicate things." In brief and amusing sketches, Stark Young reports his conversations with a good-natured Negro boy, Virgil, writes of old Eph of Texas, whose one idiosyncrasy, even as an old man, was to chase fire engines; of a Texas game warden who told him, during a long discussion of crime, chorus girls, Western cinemas and the use of cavalry in modern warfare, that in Prohibition days...