Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Professor George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Lately he has reverted to Republicanism. Still bone-dry in sentiment, he permits the editors of his individual papers to accept beer and liquor advertisements at their own discretion, notes with delight that none is so indiscreet as to do so. A boyhood job as barkeep's assistant in a hotel taught Publisher Gannett to say: "After watching booze ruin men, I made up my mind that if I ever got a chance I would fight...
Under the urge of a chance adventure, and driven by pride and hunger, I found a task and dreamed a dream which held me all the days of my boyhood, and now occupies my every working hour, and will never be fulfilled even though I live the 80 and odd years that have been foretold...
...miscarriage. Leaving her with her horse-trading father. Clay rode on alone. He saw a countryside that had been opened to settlers dry up and drive them out; he worked in the wheat fields and on a Columbia River steamboat, met the six-fingered Indian friend of his boyhood just before the Indian was murdered. Deciding that Luce's father had killed the Indian. Clay set out in search of him, met Luce again, learned that, for reasons he found understandable, she had killed not only the Indian boy but the gambler years before-the gambler for whose death...
Born just before the Civil War, James Buchanan Brady grew up near New York's Bowery to become the most arresting figure in the bizarre night life of Broadway at the turn of the century. The picture, handsomely produced by Edmund Grainger, sketches his boyhood and then concentrates on his extraordinary career as gourmet, patron of the stage, stockmarket impresario and teetotaler that followed his overnight switch from New York Central "baggage smasher" to major-league railroad supply salesman. Since Brady's life is a legend, Playwright Preston Sturges, who did the screen play from Parker Morell...
...Gallipolis hangs a wrought-iron sign, silhouetting a likeness of McIntyre at a typewriter. A legend beneath reads: "Boyhood home of O. O. McIntyre. Famous newspaperman and now writer of New York Day By Day." The Gallipolis Tribune proudly runs his column on the front page...