Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Frankie Parker (né Pajkowski), the sensational Milwaukee ball boy who rose to No. 2 ranking in 1936, clinched the Davis Cup for the U. S. in 1937, slumped last year after marrying his foster mother, Mrs. Mercer Beasley, and this year-cannier, more confident, and equipped with a new forehand-has shown promise of returning to his top-notch form...
Twenty-odd years ago in Sweden a baby was born with no ears. In every other way he was normal. When the boy was old enough to go to school, he rather enjoyed being a phenomenon, joked about it with his mates. In adolescence he became much more sensitive. He could hear perfectly-but instead of outer ears he had two repulsive stumps...
...Ragnell said he thought he could. Knowing that her boy would never knowingly accept such a sacrifice, the mother arranged to have him told that his new ears were taken from the victim of an automobile accident. She knew she could conceal the stumps of her ears by covering them with her hair...
...parttime minister and farmer of the Black Lands, Wilford Smith went to Dallas as a boy, attended a Moler barber college, graduated (so he said) cum laude. Back in his home county of Delta, he worked in a store, cut hair on the side, studied at night, became a country schoolteacher. Said he: "The only weak moment I ever had was when I played croquet with some old-maid schoolteachers, one of whom I married...
What Louis XIII could not foretell was that Louis XIV (Louis Hayward) would grow up into an arrogant wastrel, his brother Philippe of Gascony (Louis Hayward) into a fine broth of a boy, next to his tutor d'Artagnan the best blade in France. Brother Louis at first finds Brother Philippe useful as a decoy for assassins and as a stand-in with his betrothed, the Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa (Joan Bennett), while he is dallying with brassy little Louise de la Vallière (Marian Martin...