Word: boys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tommy, all great men are modest. Tell papa that Ethel really did most of your arithmetic. There's the good modest boy...
...paying sixpence one was entitled to guess the names of a boy doll and a girl doll; and if one guessed both names correctly one might take the midgets home. Clearly this was no "lottery," this was not "gambling," and so Mrs. Baldwin took a sixpence from her purse and laid it charitably on the counter...
...children, are merely a blur. But certainly he has a distinct impression of the beating his father gave him, which amused him to run away from home at eleven. He solo his school books for $2, took up residence at the Waifs' Home, got a job as copy boy for the Morning News. Evenings, he hawked papers on Chicago street corners. His father made him come home and go tc school. Six months of that, and he ran away again. Back to the newspapers, he was errand boy for a night editor and did some exhibition boxing. Later...
Graybar Electric Co.: Frank A. Ketcham, onetime stock clerk, to be President; succeeding A. L. Salt, onetime office boy, who becomes Chairman; following the company's sale by A. T. & T. to its employees...
Late in November Lieut. Benjamin ("Benny the Gas Boy") Mendez, U. S.-trained chief pilot of Colombia's air service, rose from the field at Rockaway Naval Air Station, L. I., to fly 4,600 miles to Bogota, capital of Colombia (TIME, Dec. 24). He expected to take four days. Last week he arrived, in another plane. He had been to Jacksonville. Havana. Puerto Barrios, Colon, Cartagena. Barranquilla, Girardot. He had torpedoed into the water at Colon, blasted into a tree at Girardot. After the first eight days he was 2.350 miles from his starting point. After the next...