Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twenty-one, his boyhood done...
Birthday. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; at Washington. Age: 68. Said he: "I am drawing dividends on the life I have lived since boyhood. I've never, never drank liquor in my life. I've never smoked. I've always eaten good, plain food and loved work. I never was lazy and never saw a time when I didn't have plenty to do. I've wronged nobody...
William C. ("Coke") Mason was a one-time factory hand from Ohio, whom his boyhood pal George Regan coached, bullied, kidded into a middleweight boxer of championship calibre. Soon after Coke left the factory, his wife, a small-time gold digger with big-time aspirations, left him flat. Coke brooded over her defection, but Regan thought it was a good thing. Coke's wicked left hook, his ability to take punishment, began to win him a more than local reputation. No ring-general, Coke took his orders for each fight from Regan. When he knocked out Prince Pearl, shifty...