Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very sore at night. What shall I do?" "Big old fool," snapped Réal, "I am fed up. You have a cancer." He ran from the room shouting to his father: "We are going to have 700 cars Sunday. Money will come in, eh, Papa?" Papa pulled the boy back into the room. Réal then told the woman to pray. As she left, she put a $10 bill in the center of the table...
...centuries, most of the appointments have gone to the sons of influential fathers. *Another group, the "Founder's Kin," long had special privileges, e.g., they could stay in Winchester until they were 25, but ultimately they became so numerous that the privileges were abolished. Unofficial test of a boy's relationship to Founder Wykeham: crashing a wooden platter down on his head. If the platter broke before the head had enough, the claim was valid...
...Sorry, I'm going to see my N.W.A.B. (A girl who necks with any boy...
Still insisting that she loved her husband, Joyce decided that she had to part from him forever to get her health back. Refusing to charge mental cruelty ("He was a fine boy and a wonderful husband"), she sued for divorce on the ground that she was allergic to her husband. In Los Angeles, Superior Judge Ray Brockmann was afraid that to grant a divorce on such a ground would set a ticklish precedent...
...year-old New York University sophomore, Brooklyn-born Wald landed a job as radio columnist for the old New York Graphic on the strength of sample columns written with the help of a CBS office boy. A free-lance fan magazine piece about the late Crooner Russ Colombo won him a Warners' writer contract when he was 20, and his career began in earnest. As a producer, after nine years of scripting, he quickly displayed a knack for grabbing story ideas out of the headlines (Action in the North Atlantic, Destination Tokyo), and for hastily getting aboard profitable trends...