Word: boys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...halting near a great mudpuddle. When the crowd approached again, he raced his motor sharply. In doing so he splashed dirty water over newsgatherers, photographers, admiring women. Said the Washington Daily News, in an editorial captioned "Lindbergh Splashes Mud on Himself": 'We'd like to tell the boy where he gets off but we doubt if it would serve any good purpose. . . . We would like ... to prepare him for the inevitable day when his popularity will have turned to unpopularity. . . . People with warts on their faces learn to bear their crosses bravely. People who become popular heroes should...
...forth to inspect some of New York's 32,000 speakeasies.- He came to no good, bringing up in a police station whence he had to be rescued by his father's secretary, J. L. Thornton, who bustled him to the capital. Senator Heflin awaited his boy's homecoming on the station platform. Instead of "hell," he, a fond parent, gave his prodigal a full-bosomed embrace and loving forgiveness. The reconciliation was interrupted when Senator Heflin demanded, but failed to obtain, the arrest of news cameramen who flashlighted the family group. Later, Heflin Senior issued...
Died. Viscount Shimpei Goto, 73, of Tokyo, "Roosevelt of Japan," sometime Foreign Minister, Civil Governor of Formosa, railway president, sanitation expert, subway builder. Boy Scout organizer, potent non-partisan politician; of cerebral hemorrhage; en route to Kyoto...
...contest will be officially opened by either Frank Crumit or Helen Kane, star of "Good Boy", both of whom are in town. Whoever of these two acts in the capacity of official starter will stand in the middle of Holyoke Street and wave a crimson and white Harvard banner at the sign of which the two men will dash to their respective windows and begin their musical listening duel to see who is the first to go lunatic...
When Clive told her he was marrying an unshackled modern, a newspaper woman, with dark hair brushed straight back like a boy, Monica was shocked, but contrived to ask lightly: 'Is anybody shackled nowadays, my dear?' 'Oh, we all are! . . . People who dress for dinner, I mean, and are presented at Court, and take in the "Quarterly Review...