Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crown Hill Cemetery guards found a note on Dillinger's grave: "I'm going to get her, John. So long, old boy...
Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd, 30, Oklahoma badman and bank robber. Born in Georgia, raised in the Ozarks, Floyd in 1925 began a model training for crime: five years in the Missouri Penitentiary for highway robbery. Later he was largely responsible for the fact that Oklahoma country banks at that time paid the highest robbery insurance rate in the country. In one year he killed two Government informers in Kansas City, a Federal agent, a policeman. Last year he was spotted as the man who led the Kansas City massacre in Union Station during which four officers and their prisoner were...
Five hundred farmers, who had trekked in to Bismarck to lend Langer moral and, if necessary, physical support, climbed the hill to the Capitol to hear Acting Governor Olson, in shirt sleeves and blue Barters, declare: "Little did I dream 40 years ago when, as a farm boy, I came here from Wisconsin and with my first yoke of oxen broke up this prairie, that such a day as this would come. . . . For 38 years I paid my taxes on time, then, three years ago, I couldn't meet my taxes. A man's first duty...
...than of the senses. . . . They still write about willow trees and the lovers' moon over the meadows, but their moon has no mushy tears in its eyes. . . . Freud has been dethroned. . . . Companionship and sympathetic understanding are the two goals which the new poets are seeking." Wrote a Pennsylvania boy: Do we love the less That our love is quiet? That we find heart-peace Though we miss heart-riot...
Late in August 1924, Justice John Richard Caverly of Chicago heard the last arguments in the Loeb-Leopold murder case, retired to wrestle with the record and his conscience before deciding whether the boy-killers should live or die. To his door went two Chicago Tribune newshawks, a man and a woman. They were covering the trial, but this time they wanted no news. Hesitantly the man spoke...