Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thousands of young men enlisted for the Spanish-American War, but young Henry Fletcher, a boy without a college education, a court reporter in his native Greencastle, Pa., got a place in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Private Fletcher did not return to Greencastle from the glories of San Juan Hill, nor was his career buried when as a first lieutenant he sweated for two years through the jungles of the Philippines hunting down Aguinaldo. In 1902 his onetime commander, then in the White House, remembered him and sent him, as second secretary, to the U. S. Legation...
...Kansas City in 1928. In two years his batting average jumped from .243 to .346. After the 1932 season, Owner Griffith made him manager of the team. When the Senators won the pennant las year, Joe Cronin was as much a hero to Washington as Bucky Harris, "boy manager" of the world-champion Senators had been nine years before...
Present-day boys at the large, smart, modern school in the gentle hills of mid-New Jersey are inclined to view the Johnsonian pranks as childish. Their chief stunt is to make "rhinies" (new boys) wear special caps, roll down trouser cuffs, keep off the grass. They stop classes every morning for a 15-min. session of crackers & milk. Lawrenceville enrollment has grown from 60-odd to about 500 and a Student Council rules the campus with a firm hand. It may expel any boy for cause, may even recommend the dismissal of a master. Popular in the Midwest, Lawrenceville...
Carl Milles is a master at translating motion into monuments. In his fountain figures he seems to catch, as few others before him have been able to do, the pure music of motion. Born in Upsala, Sweden, 59 years ago. Carl Milles, when a boy, tried to run away to sea, was stopped by his father. But sea motifs have always played through his art, and fountains are his favorite and best subjects. He de signed a fountain of Tritons for McKinlock Court at the Chicago Art Institute, a jolly merman and mermaid for a Stock holm public square...
...treated to a spectacle. I feel that our (if I may be pardoned the possessive adjective) big drum would be invaluable for dotting the i's or as a focal point for intricate maneuvers. I am told that the reason that it is not used is because the boy who pulls it is too lazy to attend the formation drills during the week. I cannot believe that this is the true state of affairs. Permit me to hope that any small difficulty that stands in the way will be speedily overcome, and that the stands will soon be treated...