Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese Communist Mao Tse-tung, whose troops were overruning a land of 460 million people (see FOREIGN NEWS), had just about cinched the title of Communism's Man of the Year. At a party rally in Sofia, the cheers for the name of China's strong boy were just as loud and just as long as those for Stalin...
...Owsley's Fire Escape." For more than two years Rector Clingman's congregation met in their former Negro church with its old memorial windows ("Given in Memory of Big Boy Howard"). Two potbellied stoves heated it, none too well; Joe Heitzman's boat rental place next door brought confused customers stumbling into church. This spring the congregation moved into a new $200,000 church. The members voted to name it "St. Francis-in-the-Fields"-though not before some friends of Distiller Owsley Brown ("Old Forester" and other brands) had needled him with such suggestions as "Owsley...
...London theatrical parties last week Sir Laurence Olivier fluttered his hand in mock turtle despair. "Sacked, old boy, sacked," he said. "Left without...
...support, passed through Manhattan bound for Britain, Switzerland and, possibly, marriage. Readers of the tabloid New York Daily News choked on their gum when they read that Miss Hayworth looked "as pale and haggard as though she had walked all the way from Hollywood [to meet her] gold-plated boy friend from mystic India." She scurried aboard the liner Britannic, the Daily News went on, over a gangplank "ordinarily used, dock workers said, to take bodies aboard, or to carry off the ship's refuse...
...suspender buttons (of shmoo eyes). Wherever shmoos went-and they multiplied like speeded-up guinea pigs-no one had to work any more. Capitalists thought this a menace, so Pork Tycoon J. Roaringham Fatback sent "shmooicide squads" to wipe out the shmoo. They succeeded, except for two shmoon (pl.), boy & girl, which Li'l Abner saved for Capp's future...