Search Details

Word: boykin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Yard Relay--Won by Harvard (Quinlan, McCay, Colony, Berizzi); Navy (Leonard, Boykin, Friedrich, Devane), second. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY MERMEN SINK MIDSHIPMEN 60-15 IN EASY LEAGUE TRIUMPH | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Speeding to the inn came Boykin Cabell Wright, Bankster Harriman's son-in-law who asked to be left alone with the old man. Since Harriman was out on bail, the police had no jurisdiction over him. They withdrew. Then Harriman asked Wright to step out too while he dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mr. Harriman Seeks Rest | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...bank on Fifth Avenue. The Harriman Estate retired from the bank and Joe became the Harriman of Harriman National. Last July, as fitted his age, he was elected chairman of the bank where he presided over such well-advertised directors as Julius Lichtenstein (Consolidated Cigar). Amos Sulka (shirts), Boykin Cabell Wright (Cotton Franklin, Wright & Gordon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bedroom, Jail, Death | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...Boykin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1932 | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

POOR NIGGER-Orio Vergani-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). George Boykin, true to the best African tradition, was conceived, born and bred in total darkness. Bandied by harlots, sailors, soldiers, he saw much of life, understood little. While employed as a pimp in a Senegalese seaport, he first met Madame Germaine, relict of a French engineer; later went to her house after he had been shot in the shoulder in a cafe brawl. Madame Germaine, philanthropic, took him to France with her; lost him as soon as the boat landed. He worked as bootblack, ice-boy, thief, until he met Tommy Walsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Battling Boykin | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next