Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mediator. No direct descendant of any of the Barons at Runnymede is Lord Runciman. His father was a cabin boy who made himself one of Britain's shipping tycoons. As a businessman, keen Son Runciman added to the vast family fortune and prestige. Before the War, he was an outspoken champion of peace between Britain and Germany, delivered a public rebuke to Lord Roberts for having in a preparedness speech called war between them "inevitable...
...calls first names and nicknames of people in the crowd, calls oldsters "Dad" and "Mom," old Negroes "Uncle." His sound truck plays him into the towns with Happy Days Are Here Again and he opens meetings by singing My Old Kentucky Home, is ever ready to oblige with Sonny Boy, Mother Machree or any other song the crowd calls for. Riding between towns he talks incessantly and watches for white horses, which he considers lucky. For each one he sees he licks his thumb and stamps it into the palm of his hand...
...Lady of Sorrows. No statistics exist on the ratio between prayers and fulfillments, but in Father Keane's church alone, 80,000 letters are on file from Catholics whose prayers have been answered. An analysis of 800,000 petitions showed them to be predominantly personal, begging jobs, boy friends, good health, etc. Only 8,000 of the faithful asked nothing for themselves, petitioning good health for the Pope, etc., or, in one case, a cure for Dizzy Dean...
Among the 125 applicants, 27 survived moral examination. Schoolboy Welliver was chosen because he was the best actor of this stainless group. His specifications : 5 ft. 10 in. tall, 148 lb., blue eyes, brown hair, a Boy Scout patrol leader...
...Deal crackdown in the manner of those launched against the oil, aluminum and automobile-finance businesses. Instead, in an unprecedented apology and explanation attached to its complaint, the Government took the manner of a family dentist remarking, as he starts extracting a sore tooth from a small boy's jaw, "I am sorry if this hurts, but it can't be helped and you'll feel better when it's out. So please hold still...