Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Butcher Boy & Vile Business...
...Bert Acosta, onetime [1923-25] chief test pilot for Curtiss-Wright, famed as "the bad boy of aviation." Frequently in official bad graces because of intoxication and stunting, Acosta was finally grounded in 1929. Since then he has been mostly jobless. Fellow pilots still rate...
Oldsters remember Winsor McCay less for his editorial drawings than for "Little Nemo," whose Adventures in Slumberland were a high spot of Sunday comic supplements 25 years ago. Nemo was a sweet-faced little boy supposedly inspired by Artist McCay's son Robert Winsor. He moved through a fabulous world of clouds and seas and palaces, drawn in delicate color. His companions, natives of Slumberland, were a lovely little Princess, daughter of King Morpheus; an officious, green-faced fellow named Flip who always wore a yellow top hat and held a long cigar between his huge lips; a grass...
These whose conception of the work of a team manager comes solely from prep school soon realize that at Harvard a manager is not the valet of an all-demanding team or the errand-boy of a coaching staff. Instead it is his duty to attend to the details of training and competition, in short to tell members of his team what they are to do and when...
...from the waters of Lake Pontchartrain. Dubious hero of the tale is a nameless and quixotic reporter, who is covering an airmeet at Feinman Field and stumbles on a queer situation, a flying triangle. Laverne, the woman-apex, is technically married to Shumann, a racing pilot, and her little boy bears his name. But she has no idea whether Shumann or the other member of the menage, a parachute jumper, is really the father. None of them knows, and none- except the boy, who violently resents being reminded of his uncertainty-seems to care. The reporter falls desperately in love...