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Word: boye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Paul von Hindenburg is strict on one point: he will serve as godfather to no German child except a ninth son. Last week in the Prussian town of Langenberg one Frau Colsman, already mother of six sons, was successfully delivered of boy triplets. Vice Chancellor von Papen stepped up as godfather of one. Chancellor Adolf Hitler as godfather of another. For the third and ninth President von Hindenburg proudly allowed himself to be registered as godfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Seven, Eight, Xine | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...Ciechanow heard for the eighth time a horrible sound-the agonized scream of a little girl. Seven times in the past three weeks little girls, all between 3 and 6, had been found in meadows and clumps of forest stabbed in the stomach and bleeding badly. A horrid boy, they said, who grunted like an animal had attacked them with a knife, sucked their blood and disappeared. Two of the little girls bled to death before they could be hospitalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Vampire | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

Last week when the peasants heard the child screaming in the birch forest they paused in fright for a moment, then rushed bravely to the rescue. And they caught the vampire, a wild-eyed, tattered boy stabbing wildly at a little girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Vampire | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...must come over here. I live in a palace. And, oh boy, it's some palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 28, 1934 | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...German grandmother, hanged himself. Ethel's sons were left to carry on. Readers will admire Author Scott's ingenuity in projecting her photographs into life-sized semblances, but they will not agree that she has made these foreigners completely lifelike. Like H. M. Bateman's immortal "Boy who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum," Author Scott has breathed indomitably but mostly in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reconstruction | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

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