Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first to arrive for the first meeting of the recently established C. I. O. executive board was President Lewis himself, looking hot and tired in summer whites. "Hi, Jim, how are you, boy?" he greeted boyish, diffident James Barton Carey, secretary of C. I. 0. and president of its electrical union. Vice President Philip Murray was gravely on his dignity, as becomes a crown prince. Bronzed with a Florida tan, recovered from pneumonia, Vice President Sidney Hillman backslapped one & all. Mooning about like a bitter rabbit was little Alien Harry Bridges, whose services to C. I. O. on the West...
...salutes were as varied as the uniforms. The Nazis gave the Nazi salute; the Army men made a military salute; Life Party members made a tentative gesture similar to that used to catch a waiter's eye; and Premier Count Paul Teleki, chief of the Hungarian Boy Scouts, gave the three-fingered Boy Scout salute. Chief business of the opening session: a speech by Count Teleki in which he announced that Deputies' rights to speak would be curtailed...
...real life the young Tarzan (called Boy in the film) is five-year-old John Sheffield, son of English Actor Reginald Sheffield, who once had Noel Coward for an understudy. Starting out as a 4-lb. incubator baby, little Tarzan has been undergoing special, muscle-building courses of sprouts since he was two, learning to chin himself, perform athletic improbabilities and ignore fear...
...Surrounding this jungle commune is a tribe of headhunters, who pick off two of the passengers, the mobster and the jailer, and beat war drums for the rest. When the patched-up plane is finally ready for a takeoff, only enough gas is left to carry four, and the boy. The anarchist pulls a gun, takes the law into his own hands, watches the right five safely...
This is just 1,000 times what the first Waring orchestra drew down for its first engagement, in Tyrone, Pa., 21 years ago. Fred, 18, was then in Penn State, studying architecture and engineering. His younger brother Tom and the boy next door, a dark, antic trap-drummer named Poley McClintock, had a two-piece piano & drums outfit that used to pick up occasional pin money playing for Victory dances, etc. They invited Fred, a violinist who preferred the banjo to join in. Another banjoist, Fred Buck, joined too. Four-strong, they barnstormed Pennsylvania's busy mining district, picked...