Word: boys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Departed for Sweden and possibly matchmaking, last week, the Princess Ileana, daughter of Dowager Queen Marie, adolescent aunt of the Boy King. "The Princess," it was announced, "will study the women's organizations of Sweden...
...everyone who read Hugh Walpole's book knows, A Man with Red Hair concerns a self-immolating masochist whose philosophy is that pain gives power to the pained, makes the sufferer like unto God. Mr. Crispin learned the philosophy from his father who had tortured him as a boy. At Westminster he was different. His flamboyant red hair, pudgy hands and a distorted face which bespoke a grotesque mind, made him different through life. A man of wealth, he indulged his idiosyncratic taste for cruelty and his incongruous love of good etchings. He liked to choke old ladies...
...July, 1926, five Peruvian Boy Scouts set out from Chepin, Peru, to win a prize by walking to New York. Two died. Two returned home, ill. Last week, one, Augusto Flores, arrived in Manhattan. The prize had been withdrawn...
Spreckels. All Californians know the history of the Sugar Family Spreckels. Father Claus, immigrant grocery boy, had left Germany in 1848 to avoid the revolutionary fighting. By 1856, Father Claus had imported a German bride and settled in San Francisco. From this time on, he lived in a state of perpetual warfare...
...legitimate prince, had been criminally secreted and finally cast out by the House of Baden, lest he foil a court intrigue by claiming his rightful heritage. Controversy raged as to the truth of the charge or the likelihood of fraud. But the successive murders of astute criminologist and innocent boy himself left little room for doubt. Meanwhile Caspar, bandied conspicuously from one guardian to another-a double-faced English lord in the pay of the court, a neurotic, lustful woman, a self-righteous bully of a pedagogue-suffered tortures of childish bafflement at the heartless stupidity of his elders. Treacherous...