Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right. Last week the jury acquitted Albert Maverick's boy Maury. Mavericks cheered, wept, stamped, went home. Maury Maverick went back to the Mayor's office. The Maverick clan, and many another Texan, thought he would probably weather worse political trials...
...fell exhausted. The scene shifted-years had passed. The son, arriving home drunk from a football game, forced his aging father to jump over a stick. "Have mercy on my grey hairs," begged the old man. "You didn't have any mercy on my black ones," said the boy. "Jump again." Father swooned...
...preacher and a doctor entered. They agreed that alcohol was a bad thing. Curtain, followed by Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight? by a male quartet. Then a shorter play, a real tearjerker, in which five youngsters watched the town drunk. Old Joe Sharp, having D. T.s-he had snakes in his sleeves, even in his boots (see cut). As he slouched off, the boys said: "We've been over to Alma Temple and signed the pledge and joined the Dry Legion Crusaders. We shall never drink a drop, and when we're old enough we are going...
Back in 1911 a tousle-haired, 18-year-old country boy named Huey Long, from the "redneck" hills of Louisiana's Winn Parish, walked into the dingy Union Street office of the New Orleans Item one day and asked for a job. Said Marshall Ballard, editor of the Item then & now: "I'll give you $10 a week." Said Huey, grinning as he walked out : "That's not enough. Keep your eye on me-I'm going places...
...fraternity men proceeded to pass resolutions: condemning Hell Week (initiation week) shenanigans, deploring "recent lapses from good taste on the part of certain fraternity chapters that have lent themselves to pictorial exploitation." Elected president of the National Undergraduate Interfraternity Council was a model boy, Michigan State's Arthur Howland, a student who is working his way through college by leading a dance band...