Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three champagneful years on the throne, Carol II has had ten Cabinets. Queerest was that headed by his boyhood tutor, bearded, rheumy-eyed Professor Nicholas lorga who spent much of his time inspecting the Government's stenographers and girls in the public schools, severely rebuking any whom he caught wearing shirtwaists too snugly revealing or not perfectly opaque. Disgusted with the King and his favorites, Peasant Leader Dr. Maniu went into opposition three years ago and resigned as head of the Party in favor of M. Alexander Vaida-Voevod whom Carol induced to act as Premier (TIME...
...King's boyhood voyages on the Bacchante took him to the West Indies, South America, South Africa and Australia and Japan. From Japan he brought back a very nautical souvenir and he has it still, a dragon tattooed on his arm, and this, perhaps more than anything else, endears him to seamen as one of themselves...
...from the darkened horizon. On its first showing in an exhibition arranged by jovial William Allen White, onetime Governor Henry J. Allen's wife deplored: "Cyclones . . . are certainly to be found in Kansas, but why must Mr. Curry paint these freakish subjects? His self-portrait shows . . . a boyhood that has only seen the most sordid conditions of life...
...piglet, named him Pete, raised him to pighood, gave his profit to Leper missions. Last week Mr. Chapman, now a St. Paul electrical engineer, visited Manhattan to permit a firm-willed patrician from Richmond, Va., Mrs. Robert Randolph Harrison, to pin a silver medal on him for his boyhood initiative. Mrs. Harrison during the ceremony wore a little gold pig on a brooch over her heart; she is the "Honorable First Pig Lady in America," for ingeniously transforming Mr. Chapman's pig-fund idea. Like 80,000 others who learned from her, she sends toy pig banks...
...school days Mr. Sharp was a prolific contributor to the pulp magazines. The leisurely life in Bermuda appears to have given him a chance to revert to his boyhood hobby. He has already lodged the manuscript of another mystery, The Murder of the Honest Broker, with his publisher...