Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Robinson." cried the father of the pressmen's union, "had no more to do with the employment of Jack Wilshear than my office boy! I think she is 1,000,000% in every detail. There are enough two-fisted men around here without picking on a little woman...
From the World's Fair and Niagara Falls sight-seeing Prince Tsunenori Kaya of Japan sped on to the Grand Canyon. There a woman bustled up to the Oriental nobleman to gush: "I'm sure you know the Japanese boy that works for my sister in New York. No? Well, let me see. I think his name is Fu Manchu or something. ... I was certain you would recall the name...
Enjoying evil for its own sake, the Captain reduces Brother Matthew to a state of misery by destroying his faith in God and man. He ferrets out Nephew Romney's deep tangled secrets, laying him bare and vulnerable, enjoys exposing the boy to a crass prostitute. Weasel-like, soft-footed, he discovers that his spinster sister's love letters are written by and to herself. He relishes the joke, pretends to sympathize, but uses the knowledge to get money out of her. Even the servants are not exempt from his influence...
...forward to the summer, as is Fred Bratton who works for Mr. Leverett, owner of "The Poplars," and whose wife is expecting her twelfth. There is the old sculptor, Stirling, always welcome. It looks like a good summer among friends. Nor would Rita Woodruff's affair with the Polish boy who sings weird songs, or the youthful infatuation of Judith Crawford for Bill Woodruff (aged 46), upset the usual harmony. But there is a newcomer, Mrs. Fernanda Milbank, who leases "The Poplars" and arrives with her spoiled, affected, unhappy little daughter, Geraldine...
Marty, the Polish boy, is discharged by Mrs. Milbank and gets into trouble. Rita Woodruff drives him out of town, concealed under a blanket. Susannah Crawford, Jack's wife, shoots her wounded dog with a pearl-handled revolver. Bill Woodruff, long ago in love with Fernanda, loves Susannah, at least as an old friend...