Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faneuil Hall weather-vane is, must be an impostor." Faneuil Hall later became known as "the grasshopper market," but no one was quite sure why Shem Drowne had chosen that particular design. The story goes, however, that one day in his youth Shem struck up a conversation with a boy who was chasing a grasshopper. The boy took him home for dinner, and later Shem was adopted by the boy's parents. Years later, remembering the grasshopper that had brought about his adoption, He immortalized that insect in the weather-vane which still crowns Faneuil Hall and Dock Square...
...detective named Elery Purnsley was across the street; he ran a few steps, pulled out his revolver and fired. Bad Boy shot back and killed him, too. Then Bad Boy started shooting at everybody in sight-at people leaning out windows, at people on the street. He was a good shot-he killed six more and wounded three...
...minutes the cops came-78 city, county and state policemen. They started shooting revolvers, shotguns, Tommy guns and tear-gas shells into Bad Boy's window. After they had shot in 20 gas shells, they ran across the street and up the stairs of the rooming house. Bad Boy turned his .22 around and shot himself through the roof of the mouth. He was dead when the cops broke down his door...
...Conways-Terry and Neil-kibitzing. He ticked off Tommy's weaknesses: slow getaways, too much use of elbows, getting sucked out of position. "You got to get smarter," Jerry pounded home. Tim Sr., an Irishman who believes that athletics is the best thing that can happen to a boy, admitted that Tommy was lackadaisical. Under that kind of tutoring, Tommy soon perked up and played better...
...Southwell, 73, rags-to-riches London transit mogul, President of the Board of Trade in Lloyd George's World War I cabinet; following an operation; in London. Son of an English railway worker who emigrated to the U.S. in 1879, he started out at 14 as a messenger boy in the Detroit streetcar system, rose to be manager, returned to England in 1907 to reorganize London's subways, finally (with the Labor government's help) unified the city's whole transport system into a single $1 billion public-owned corporation...