Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boy, Frank S. Hewitt Jr., is eleven years of age and in the 6th grade. His class has what they call "The Story Tellers Club." Last month the club was called on by the teacher to write a short original narrative poem, and the enclosed is Frank Jr.'s contribution...
...January 1934 he formed another government only a few days before the Stavisky scandal flared into bloody riots. Serge Alexandre Stavisky, a Russian Jew who emigrated as a boy to France, had long been mixed up with shady financial deals. In 1932 he had gained control of the semi-official pawnshop ("Credit Municipal") of Bayonne. By arranging to have the shop's jewels overvalued, by getting a letter of endorsement from the Minister of Labor, by persuading even the Mayor and Deputy of Bayonne to "cooperate," Stavisky was able to sell quantities of Credit Municipal bonds many times greater...
...bellow of the blast and Ko-Ko's song I've got a little list. Sets are far handsomer than any ever seen on the Savoyard stage. Sound recording is approximately perfect. On close inspection, cinemaddicts will note that the Mikado's story conforms strictly to Boy-Meets-Girl pattern; and that Gilbert & Sullivan have not yet been topped by Tin Pan Alley...
...Brokennose." Dr. Charlie took his earliest lessons in anatomy as a small boy. In the Sioux uprising of 1862 Dr. William Worrall Mayo, father of the two famed brothers, had helped capture 38 big, powerful Indians, helped string them up wholesale along the banks of the Minnesota River. Scientifically-minded settlers who wanted a dead Indian could help themselves. "Father got Chief Broken-nose," wrote Dr. Charlie many years later. "We had a large kettle and that is where Will and I studied bones...
...call there by another green quite like their shade in late May. A pastel tint, they lay, deepening the bollows to a hunter emerald. So she made garden throughout the morning, busy with tulip and dahlia tubers, hollybook plants to draw the bees, and the bitter tansy. The grocery boy came by with news of a herring run down at the Gut. He sniffed. "Seems like it's spring, I guess." "Ayea," game her noncommittal assent from, the kitchen door...