Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the Washington situation fortnight ago when Mr. Roosevelt returned from Warm Springs and Mr. Garner returned from Uvalde, with a new tan sombrero, terming himself "just a country boy trying to get along with the city slickers." Promptly they put their heads together, decided it was politically too dangerous to try to spike Mr. Byrns's ambitions. So Mr. Garner emerged from the White House and slyly told reporters in answer to questions...
Thomas Augustus Watson was a livery stableman's son, a shy boy who roamed the woods declaiming poems to trees and stones. He got a job in a machine shop where young inventors brought their work. His interest in voice culture brought him to the attention of Bell, who was teaching deaf-mutes in a Boston school. At the time Bell was tinkering with a "harmonic telegraph" by which he hoped to send several messages at once over the same wire.* The two men accidentally discovered that the tones and overtones of a vibrating transmitter reed could be carried...
Says 60-year-old Mother Robinson: "My boy doesn't smoke, drink or gamble. He is a perfect gentleman and everybody who knows him loves him. He finds it hard to send me anything to live on here in New York because of the Russian laws that stop money from being sent out of the country. I manage, by the help of the Lord, to live after a fashion, but New York is a hard city to live in. Last year my boy visited me, so he could renew his American passport...
...That is bad news, very bad news," gravely remarked Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy in Manhattan one day last week. He referred to reports that at Islesboro, Me. an 11-year-old boy had found a 17-lb. lump of ambergris worth some...
...custom, two new human animals were crowned healthiest girl and boy: Doris Louise Paul, 15, of Wilton Junction, Iowa and Leland Monasmith, 18, of Lane, S. Dak. For the twelfth consecutive time highest grain honors went to a Canadian, with a one-peck sample of hard red spring wheat. Corn owned by an Indianan named Lux was chosen best of the crop. A ton of Clydesdale draft horse owned by Mr. Wilson's packing company was elected best of its kind...