Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...send the President, Senators and Congressmen home and keep an office boy at the White House to open the telegrams? Then when some damphool blasts the air with some other Utopian idea all we will have to do is to wire Washington; the office boys will count the telegrams and the stenographers will write the laws on the books, according to the majority vote...
...rooms a six-year-old boy licked the paper bag the meat had been brought in. His legs were scarcely any larger than a medium-sized dog's leg, and his belly was as large as that of a 130-pound woman's. Suffering from rickets and anemia, his legs were unable to carry him for more than a dozen steps at a time; suffering from malnutrition, his belly was swollen several times its normal size. His face was bony and white. He was starving to death...
...live with him, fled to Montreal on the S.S. Montrose when his late wife's friends infected Scotland Yard with their suspicions. The only elements in the Crippen case which might possibly raise it above the low level of other murders, were: 1) in flight the secretary wore boy's clothes; 2) when detectives on the faster Laurentic overtook the Montrose, wireless was used for the first time to apprehend a fugitive criminal. Taken back to England, the bald, walrus-mustached, unattractive little uxoricide was hanged. The secretary went free...
John Harvard's mother went to school with Shakespeare; Harvard knew as a boy the Great Bard, and his Inn, the sale of which supplied the money for the donation to the University, was often fined for selling liquor during church hours. Such were among the interesting facts brought out by Frank W. C. Hersey '99, instructor in English, in his talk before the Memorial Society, last night in the Adams House Upper Common Room...
...boy, Frankie Thomas, gives a good performance, at times top-notch. Hollywood has become so addicted to the success of childhood misfortune lately, however, that it must let Frankie resemble Jackie Cooper for irksome moments. As a result, the picture gives one a sense of frustration which may be the reason we were disappointed...