Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thumb and pulled out a plum. From being a fading and futile minority President he had suddenly appeared in a new and more popular guise as an effective rabble-rouser. It remained to be seen whether the U.S. would agree with him that he was really a good boy...
Beau Jack, the Negro shoeshine boy from Georgia, had earned about $500,000 in the ring and kept almost none of it. Recently he blew in the last big chunk on a flashy new car, but insisted "I'll be all right." For he was the Golden Boy, who drew more cash customers into Madison Square Garden than any fighter living. He had twice won & lost the lightweight crown. No fighter had ever knocked him down for the full count...
What Ricksha Boys Know. So Ch'ih Huang, the carpenter, became Ch'ih Pai-shih, the artist, to paint for the rest of his days-lotus blossoms, palm leaves, banana trees, but mostly crickets, chicks, shrimps and crabs. "Only the rich have known landscapes," says he. "But every ricksha boy knows a shrimp or a crab...
...ctor Poleo seems much too young and much too miserable to be Venezuela's best-known artist. He has been miserable most of his life, and looks old before his time. The son of a Caracas furniture maker, he was a moody boy, blinded in one eye by a childhood accident, and haunted by the memory of a violin teacher mangled by a car near Hector's house. Héctor spent most of the long, monotonous days of his childhood drawing by himself-in books, on walls, on scraps of paper. Finally his father, who had once...
Carl Milles has always preferred a studio. Born in Sweden, he started modeling early, baking his clay in his mother's oven and avoiding school as much as possible. His father began to think his delicate son was a dullard. "Send the boy to me. I'll make a man of him," a friend wrote the father. Milles set out, "but I stopped in Paris. I stopped in Paris forever. For six years, I didn't write home. I was excited about...