Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lavers a copy of TIME, Sept. 26, containing account of how Daniel Richard Crissinger and Warren Gamaliel Harding played together as members of Ohio gangs in boyhood. The Marion Star referred to is one of a string of small Ohio newspapers acquired in the past few years by "two unknown young men"-Roy D. Moore & Louis H. Brush.† Banker Frank A. Vanderlip of Manhattan got himself in trouble by suspecting publicly that the Messrs. Moore & Brush obtained the Marion Star at an exorbitant price from its onetime owner, Warren Gamaliel Harding (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924 et seq.). Among...
George Sutherland, 65, born in Buckinghamshire, England, and put on the high bench by President Harding. He spent his boyhood and young-lawyer's life in Utah, until sent to Congress. He is sometimes confused with a Scotch-Canadian namesake who, a good Baptist minister and college president, campaigns for the Anti-Saloon League in Nebraska. But not often, for he takes care to give "c/o Supreme Court of the U. S." as his address, in Who's Who, and wears a short beard of silver-tipped distinction. He is usually to be found on the vested-rights...
Some of the most interesting asquisitions are "Treasury of Sacred Song" by J. E. Palgrave: "A New England Boyhood" by E. W. Hale; "Punch" 1927, a bound collection of that magazine: "Torrocks Jaunts" by P. S. Surteas; and "Touchdown" by Coach. Alonzo Stagg, an account of the present University of Chicago mentor's experience with the game of football...
...that of Mr. McNamee. The voice is Phillips Carlin's and it is this very similarity that prompts WEAF to assign them together. One broadcaster cannot talk ceaselessly; when he is resting it is less confusing to have a substitute voice of close resemblance. Mr. Carlin was a boyhood orator in Manhattan public schools. He entered the silk business. He went to war. He joined WEAF as an announcer and is now manager of the Manhattan key station...
...realize that these boys will be the men of the future generation and that because of their training there will not be any such catastrophe as the World War, in which millions of men were killed? If Reader Knapp can recall 365 good deeds, in any year during his boyhood, he surely would be more broad-minded than he is today...