Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confess a thing of which they were not guilty, they were murdered by a volley of machine gun bullets. . . . Shortly afterward, another group of guardsmen attacked the home of Sofonias Salvatierra, Minister of Agriculture, and killed Socrates Sandino, Augusta's brother, two men and a ten-year-old boy...
...many a U. S. reader a nine-year period of suspense ended last week when F. Scott Fitzgerald, bad boy of U. S. letters, published his first novel since The Great Gatsby (1925). Somehow during those intervening years the news had leaked out that Author Fitzgerald had big ambitions, would not always be content to turn out facile potboilers for the commercial fiction magazines. Even highbrow critics admitted that The Great Gatsby had been a promising foreshadow of better books to come. Rumor spread that Author Fitzgerald was leading a double literary life, that he was writing a Dostoievskian novel...
...sense in which the layman understands this word." In fact, said he, the whole rumpus was the fault of a bungling newshawk who thought he meant maniacs when he said some teachers were manic-depressives. And he had not said that a teacher twisted a chair-leg in a boy's eye. She had merely twisted it near...
Sophomore Theodore Roosevelt III, grandson of the 26th President, as a chorus girl; Junior Irvin McDowell Garfield Jr., grandson of the 20th President, as a chorus boy; Junior Robert Houghton Hepburn,* younger brother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, as a chorus girl...
...Boy into Bone...