Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four years, was President, his aids worried much because he could not present himself in the role of a human being. They had to think up many ways of dramatizing the milk of human kindness that flowed in his heart. At great pains they brought Bryan Untiedt, Colorado boy who the Press headlined as having saved 16 children marooned in a snowbound school bus, to Washington to play a mouth organ for the Hoovers. No such dramatization is required by Franklin Roosevelt, but the same machinery still turns. Twelve-year- old Thomas Fitzgerald, of Ocean City...
...little man . . . whose countenance is a caricature of a drummer boy risen too high."? I Saw Hitler by Dorothy Thompson...
...every Russian child knows, the Young Pioneers?Bolshevik boy and girl scouts?have had plenty of suffering and struggling in Russia, largely at the hands of oldsters unable to understand the ideals of Young Russia. In December 1932, there was the case of little Pavel and Fedor Morosov. Pavel & Fedor were Young Pioneers and they knew that their father, president of a local Soviet, was secretly in league with village kulaks. As a good Pioneer, Pavel promptly peached on papa but other villagers did not appreciate the children's rectitude. They tracked Pavel & Fedor to the woods, hacked their bodies...
...young Negro banjoist from Indianapolis named Noble Sissle. Sissle followed Europe to France during the War where they were members of the 15th New York Infantry's "Black Devil Band" and whence they returned after Armistice to tour the U. S. Later in Boston, a shell-shocked drummer boy shot and killed Europe...
...trader, Hero Dorbandt lately was accused by the Federal Government of smuggling pelts into the U. S. Last month in Seattle he was charged by a 19-year-old girl with being the father of her child. Last week Frank Dorbandt was in more trouble. Flying a sick boy from Point Barrow to Anchorage, Alaska, he landed at St. Johns, picked up some men who had been marooned there three weeks. When he reached Anchorage, carrying eleven passengers, a dog and 200 gal. of gasoline, a Department of Commerce inspector claimed his plane was overloaded by 2,000 lb., revoked...