Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 8: March 18), I am wondering if any inquiry has been made of the artist as to the source from which he derived his title. It is pure surmise on my part that it came- perhaps subconsciously - from the second line of the poem, Barbara Frietchie. Every school boy knows those first two lines...
...Zagreb, second city of 11-year-old Boy King Peter's realm, proud Yugoslav police announced last week that their new and ingenious system "for disciplining motorists without arrests or fines" has been fully tested, adopted as a huge success...
High spots in the 70-minute program, which Rudy had graciously consented to come out from Boston and voluntarily present the Freshmen, were the rendering of a song, "The Ghost of Dinah," by Ann Graham, platinum girl, the mimicry of Al Bernie, 14-year old boy marvel, and the singing and playing of the leader and the Connecticut Yankees themselves...
...Zoltan Dome, an Hungarian tenor as lazy as he was handsome. Third was George Washington Young, millionaire president of U. S. Mortgage & Trust Co., so lavish in his courtship that once when Nordica was singing on the Pacific Coast and he was in Manhattan he hired a messenger boy to take her an emerald necklace clear across the continent...
...year-old publisher is a "great American," a real Progressive, an unappreciated genius, a master of English prose, an extravagant, wilful client. But Lawyer Neylan's intense loyalties never beget humility. No yessing Hearstling, he some-times lectures Mr. Hearst as if he were a small boy. Visitors at the Hearst castle at San Simeon tell of the wistful note in the querulous Hearst voice: "I'd like to buy it, but Mr. Neylan won't let me." He usually buys it anyway, and Chancellor of Exchequer Neylan finds the money. Periodically Chancellor Neylan threatens to resign...