Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after a group of Harvard Lampoon graduates had moved to New York and in 1883 founded a decorous humorous publication called Life, a Wall Street office boy arrived at their sanctum with a sketchy cartoon. He was the sort of office boy the editors of Life wanted to encourage-a hard working, impoverished Boston gentleman. The editors of Life gave Charles Dana Gibson $4 for his cartoon...
John Jones was a stone mason who owned his own home but he had not been able to meet the instalments on his mortgage for a year and a half. The only one in the family who had work was the boy, who was a shoe clerk. The boy's thin pay envelope and a little something in the savings bank kept the family off the town but unless something turned up they would lose the house, sure...
...Paul, Robert Heger invited friends to a performance of the Hindu rope trick, most baffling of magical feats. On a dimly lighted stage a coil of rope stiffened at Heger's command, rose slowly into the air. A Hindu boy clambered up the rope, vanished. Armed with a sabre, a second Hindu swarmed up after him, tossed down arms, legs, head, torso. Finally Magician Heger enfolded the bloody members in his robe, then opened it for the Hindu lad to step forth...
...entrance to Leverett House there is an impressive tablet commemorating the Harvard men who fell in the War. In the hall, the other day, a blue-jacketed messenger boy was seen scratching his head in sore perpierity. Stopping one of the men, he queried, "Hey, bud, does Smith live in this here place...
WITH all due respect to Happy Bob Benchley, the Baker's Boy, one does get just the trace of an idea that he really is going from Bed to Worse these days. Nonsense combined with satire can be made to be extremely funny and Our Bob, as we used affectionately to call him, was able to make it so in the good old days. But recently one has the feeling that perhaps these depression years are getting him down, if not possibly out. Some of the little bits in the book rally the old savoir to their cause, but there...