Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright with their church club banners, blazoned with pictures of the Blessed Virgin and other saints. Suddenly from nowhere marched a company of Hitler Jugend. The company marched clean through the crowd of children, seized a banner, about-faced and marched back again. At this show of big-boy force, the priests herded their children back toward the railway station. At the station Hitler's Youths amused themselves by dashing among the children and snatching the rest of their banners. Bishop Bares of the Catholic Diocese of Berlin and Brandenburg sent smoking protests to Chancellor Hitler, to Prussia...
...announced that the prince would not dream of marrying the captain's daughter. But in Cannes King Gustaf was worried. He was reported to have said to Spain's onetime King Alfonso XIII at a dinner party, "I intend to do all I can to stop the boy...
...remember the hunting lodge. His benefactress, the great Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, had fled there as a young mother with her cowardly, dying Emperor, in 1860, when British and French troops marched on Peking. When Revolution blew Pu Yi, a six-year-old boy, off the throne of the Manchus in 1912, he was locked in the Winter Palace at Peiping. He did not enjoy Manchu pomp, preferred his tennis court and bicycle...
...from Cleveland; William Roveen, 25, who for four years has earned his music lessons by waiting on table in a summer camp; Paul Ward, whose last job was a clerkship in a restaurant supply house; Clifford Menz, son of a St. Paul lawyer; William Horne, a smiling, square-shouldered boy who runs errands for a Manhattan laundry; S. Powell Middleton who supervises the public school music in Mount Lebanon, Pa.; Jesse Wolk who farms in New Jersey; and Frederic Langford, 27, who clerks in a Manhattan book shop...
...headlines was the appalling assertion that no less than 1,500 of New York's public school teachers were actually unbalanced. Many were hopelessly insane, some almost maniacs. Reading down, startled parents learned of a teacher so self-conscious that she had poked a chair-leg into a boy's eye and twisted it ''to distract attention of the class" from herself. Another had sat furred and hatted in a warm room complaining that the janitor was trying to freeze her. Several had commuted to work from suburban White Plains' Bloomingdale Hospital for mental ailments...