Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Once, just before he was to be exchanged back to the Loyalists, he announced publicly: "I don't give a damn about a cause. I'm fighting for money." The Loyalists took someone else. And ever since, Harold E. Dahl has been Peck's Bad Boy in Salamanca. Reason why he stays where he is definitely unwanted: he is even more definitely wanted in Los Angeles on charges of having passed eight bad checks...
Robert Vincent is 39. as a boy learned to record by doing chores around the old Edison studios in Manhattan. He lived for a time in Oyster Bay, where he got to know the late Theodore Roosevelt. His first recording was of Theodore Roosevelt's voice, greeting Vincent's Boy Progressives League on March 4, 1913, while Woodrow Wilson was being inaugurated President after outrunning Bull Mooser Roosevelt and Republican William Howard Taft. Said Teddy to the young Bull Moosers with unsquelched heartiness and bite: "Don't flinch, don't foul, and hit the line hard...
...blares out boosts not only for Brinkley's treatments but for hair dye, life insurance, oranges, perfume and "doctor's book." The latter sells for $1, complete with pictures of Dr. Brinkley, his wife Minnie Telitha, their white-stucco home, six-story brick hospital and son "Johnnie Boy." Since XERA drowns out every station in the neighborhood, rates for XERA-time run as high as $1,700 an hour...
...summers the Brinkleys and eleven-year-old Johnnie Boy go for pleasure trips on their long, white yacht (their third), Dr. Brinkley III. At present Brinkley is consulting his astrologer, harsh-voiced, blondined Rose Dawn, who broadcasts over XERA, about his chances for the Presidency. To date, says pleasant, sociable Mrs. Brinkley, the doctor has received "500,000 unsolicited letters" urging...
...Rowlandson's The Arch Duchess Marie Louise going to have her Nap (showing the future Empress of France in bed with Napoleon), Satirist Carle Vernet was able to reply with an incomparably more subtle study called Les Anglais a Paris, three figures of a girl, a fat boy, and a military popinjay which still contain nearly all the French have to say about the English character...