Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doing Here?" On the third and fourth day, they were instructed to write confessions. None of their "confessions" were acceptable. On the fifth day they were handed "confessions" and told to sign them. Interrogators pointed to a stack of statements by company employees. "You're not a boy. Look at what we have against you." Back in his cell, Ruedemann noticed for the first time the sketchy histories of some previous suspects scribbled on the wall. One had stayed in the cell 17 days, another 23. Said Ruedemann: "Then I asked myself, 'What am I doing here...
When Chaim Weizmann was a boy in Pinsk, Russia, he had already found his cause: he walked from door to door, collecting kopeks for a Jewish homeland in Zion. When he was eleven, he wrote to his teacher that the Zionist goal must be accomplished with British...
George Bernard Shaw, 92, entertained British Actress Frances Rowe. "I feel like a bouncing baby boy," cackled the playwright, and illustrated what he meant when a photographer tried to pose them together. His coaching to the actress: "Give me the glad eye, Fanny...
...most perfectly darling boy down at Yale last weekend. I went home to New Haven for the weekend. It's only three hours away you know and he goes to the Drama School there, and so I made up my mind. But now I don't think he's so darling any more. But I still like Drama. But there isn't any Drama at Radcliffe. Of course, I'm, interested in practically everything except science and math, but I wouldn't want to go into lit because you usually have to go for honors in lit and I wouldn...
...Self-Possessed. Two main characters dominate the novel. One is Charles Mallison, a 16-year-old boy who, in the scheme of the book, represents innocence and freshness, the potentiality of Southern white manhood unspoiled by ancient hatreds. Counterposed to Charles is Lucas Beauchamp, an old Negro farmer with some white blood in his veins, who lives in solitary dignity on a patch of land bequeathed by a white ancestor. Lucas Beauchamp is one of the most magnificent and majestic characters in all American fiction. "Solitary, kinless and intractable, apparently not only without friends even in his own race...