Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Herald & Examiner, to recite the story of how "Ed" Kelly, son of Fireman "Steve" Kelly, was born blind; how he gained his sight at the age of 18 months when his mother washed his eyes with her own milk; how he became a newsboy at 9, an office boy at 12, a day laborer at 17. The New York Times, a thousand miles away, was prompted to print such a eulogy as it seldom accords even a great statesman. And Franklin Roosevelt, landing in Florida, was prompted to do some serious thinking...
James Montgomery Flagg: "This whole plague of photography is a baby of the Depression. It was cheaper than real art for advertising, but it is betraying its sponsors for all ads now look alike. . . . The boy and girl in their bathing suits being too ecstatic about a case of beer are the same boy and girl on the next page swearing they couldn't live without one of the four cigaret brands that claim to be better than each other...
Anyway, the front cover of your issue of March 25 comes forth with a swell-looking picture of America's No. 1 Butcher Boy. and practically all of pp. 15, 16, 17 and 18 is devoted to America's part in the World's Vilest Business...
Private Worlds (Paramount). Said Ernst Lubitsch, onetime director and now Paramount's new production chief, last fortnight: "Eight hundred motion pictures are produced in Hollywood each year. That means that some one must strive to contrive to have the boy meet the girl in a different way than 799 others have related it. Reduced to elementals, that is our problem." If it did nothing else, Private Worlds would be notable for the solution which it offers to the perplexity which caused Producer Lubitsch to forget his grammar. The boy and the girl meet in an insane asylum where...
Samuel Rufus Rosoff was born in Minsk, Russia, 53 years ago. Aged u, he worked his way to the U. S. as a potato-peeler on an immigrant ship. A tough, dirty little boy who had never been inside a school, he sold newspapers, slept on warm sidewalk gratings, learned to read at the Public Library. One job led to another until Samuel Rosoff was building New York City subways, operating bus lines, brewing King's beer, buying race horses and making money hand over fist. Today he often carries $50,000 cash in his pockets, tells competitors: "Money...