Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...likings, and extending their knowledge of good eating. Their tastes change and become more catholic as they go through the University. For example, a spaghetti done in true Italian style, seasoned with garlic and other herbs, and plenty of full flavored choose may be turned down by a boy just of school, but as a Senior he may consider it a treat. Similarly with meats which are all improved by being "hung" the proper length of time unfrozen before being served. The schoolboy often refuses "hung" meat as being spoiled; the older man demands it and complains...
...World speed record for seaplanes (440.6 m.p.h.) was made two months ago in Italy by swart, tiny Francesco ("Crazy Boy") Agello (TIME...
...York from Rumania at the age of four. At 14 he went to work with William Steiner & Co., lithographers, as a bronze feeder at $2.50 per week. Evenings he helped his father who had the candy concession at the Academy of Music on 14th St. One day the boy was picked up by the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He spent the night in the Society home, was given a bath. After that he was careful not to sell candy while Society members were looking. Twelve years later he borrowed some money and with friends...
...would be off to some other place on the first day of autumn. More, he was fleeing from a woman of his own kind, because she had tried to persuade him to embrace mortality. Meanwhile Margaret, the other immortal visitant, having lost her mate, took shelter with a college boy who had given her a lift on the road, and let him become her lover for a few days. When she began to worry about the shortening time she escaped, took up the search for John again. She found him, and the jailer's daughter was sent packing...
...blew the roof off University Hall all right, all right," chuckled the Maintenance Department man as he wandered about the seats of the great yesterday afternoon. "Boy, the old roof floated off like a new hat on a windy...