Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wiggled her tows before the mirror and continued to play with her costume. "Not long ago I happened to mention that each of my fans cost $400, and that, consequently, I had to be very careful of them. Inside of a week I received a lovely letter from a boy in Cambridge suggesting that I buy smaller fans since they would be far less expensive and I wouldn't have to worry about misplacing them. I think it was sweet of him, don't your. The reporter hastened to inform her that the young man had doubtlessly expressed the opinion...
...according to official school records, is 12, not 11; her date of birth was June 17, 1921. Her family are wealthy, but can hardly claim to be "aristocrats among Creeks" in any other sense, for they are not leaders or prominent people in the tribe. The McClish boy is an orphan, so his parents did not "readily give consent" to the marriage. His guardian objected, and would have preferred to have him punished by imprisonment for his act, but the girl's representative's reached the judge first and obtained the marriage order. The boy is known...
...Franklin, married Helen Astor, and her nephew, Vincent, knew James as "Uncle Rosie." Vincent, born in 1891, was nearly ten years younger than Franklin so that, although they knew each other from childhood, they were not at that time good friends. From 1907 on, while Vincent, an ungainly boy, was still in school at Newport, Franklin Roosevelt was already a budding young lawyer, working for the Manhattan firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. In that capacity he helped look after many legal details connected with the huge real estate holdings of Vincent's father, John Jacob Astor...
Rolls-Royce of England, parent of Rolls-Royce of America, Inc., was founded in 1903 by the son of a miller. As a boy, Hon. Charles Stuart Rolls, son of Lord Llangattock, precociously demonstrated his electrical ability by rigging up an apparatus in his mother's bedroom so that the moment she sat in her favorite armchair the room would burst into light. Plump Lady Llangattock sat down so hard she squashed the switch, blew out a fuse. Partner Frederick Henry Royce, struggling against youthful poverty, had no time for pranks. A modest builder of electrical cranes in Manchester...
...salty New England accent: "Gracious to dearie me!" cried old Mrs. Slocum, "Confound this floor, by guy, I most to fell." "What's the matter, Ma?" called a voice from the darkness. "Mighty near bust my toe off's what's the matter. Told that boy a dozen times if I told him Once that he'd ought to nail that board, in place. . . ." The Author. Elder brother of Author Oliver La Farge (Laughing Boy, Sparks Fly Upward), son of Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, grandson of Painter John La Farge, Christopher ("Kipper") Grant La Farge...