Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that has stumped Editor Hall is a four and a half page letter written by an American entirely in code. Another, from a Missouri schoolboy, asked for Sherlock Holmes's help in apprehending a schoolmate suspected of filching goodies from his classmates' lunch boxes. Hall advised the boy to make sure of his facts before accusing a fellow human being, and told him to do as Holmes did: watch his man. There were other letters which began: "Bless your heart for letting me write a letter at last to 221 B Baker Street and know that I will...
...Kirkwood Jr., husky, handsome pro golfer and "the Ideal American Boy" who plays Joe Palooka in the movies, was hauled off to court in Worcester, Mass. and adjudged the father of a pair of six-year-old ideal American twins belonging to a movie cashier named Florence Hep-penstall. "I scarcely knew the girl," said Joe, who nonetheless made a prompt cash settlement...
...Hawley Harvey Crippen, a London dentist, was hanged (1910) for poisoning his wife, chopping up her remains and burying them in his cellar. Henri Desire (Bluebeard) Landru was guillotined (1922) in Versailles, France, for butchering ten women and a boy...
They showed a little boy in blue checks playing with his purple-maned hobbyhorse and a baby sitting in her perambulator. But they were not the. sort to please the average doting father. Picasso had rearranged his offspring's features, lopped off hands and feet, squashed Claude to a playing-card flatness, and transformed Paloma into a two-headed little monster...
...William learned oil chemistry at Glasgow's Royal Technical College, worked as an office boy in his father's oil shale company. In 1919, Anglo-Iranian (then called the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.) took over his father's company and "Willie came with the shale." He moved up to a directorship, then became Anglo-Iranian's deputy chairman. In 1931 he helped form Shell-Mex & B.P., Ltd. to market Anglo-Iranian and Shell products in Britain, and set up the Consolidated Refineries, Ltd. subsidiary which built such huge Anglo-Iranian installations as the refinery at Haifa...