Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pierce Butler was a poor boy, born near Northfield, Minn., on March 17, 1866, but he had no Lincolnian tenderness for those in humble circumstances. His own bitter struggle to the top only taught him that those who were successful need not be held responsible for those who failed...
...Eton's boys the war was proving rather a rag. They carried their gasmasks in biscuit tins which the school had sensibly bought from a bakery for threepence each. The boys were excused from wearing toppers on campus (but not off), because high hats would congest the school air-raid shelter. Each boy could keep one book, also chocolate, in the shelter. But the famed pack of Eton beagles was to be reduced, for economy, from eleven and a half to six and a half couples...
When he was a little boy in Glasgow 30 years ago William Primrose loved to saw away at an old viola that was around the house. His father, who was himself a disappointed viola player, strongly objected, set little William to practicing the violin instead. But William never forgot the charms of the forbidden viola. Years later, in Brussels, when his teacher, the late great violinist and tosspot Eugene YsaŸe, told William he had special aptitude for the viola, he switched to it for life. In 1937, when NBC officials were recruiting their new NBC Symphony, they heard...
...replace Swope, G.E. chose big, 53-year-old Charles E. Wilson, who went to work for G.E. at 12 (wage, $3 per week), never left it, worked as office boy, shipping clerk, factory accountant, production manager, sales manager...
...throws a touchdown pass to the left, one of his favorite plays, he usually explains to his opponent: "Just a little thing we thought up . . . no deception intended." Once when an opposing tackier bounced him for the 19th time, Christman gazed up at him from the ground, said: "My boy, why don't you rest on your laurels...