Word: boys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good thing to learn, from the bottom up. Mrs. Coolidge spent Labor Day getting John's things packed up and sitting with him on the porch. His mother and father knew how hard on John the Publicity thing could be. Secret Service Man Russell Wood, the boy's constant companion, had orders to guard against and censor all importune press photographs...
...Ralston few are more lovely, than Hobart Bosworth few more noble. Somehow La Ralston failed to be convincing as the circus Hallie whom an evangelist (Bosworth) denounced because she ran a shell game. She was arrested, paroled in the evangelist's care. She gets religion, almost loses her boy friend (Reed Howes), but inevitably wins him over to the cause of righteousness...
...belief that Judith Wheater was the baby's mother-no indeed, Judy was a child herself, for all her motherly ways. Baby Chipstone was her own brother, and her parents' chief bone of contention. Then there were the 12-year-old twins-Terry, a wise boy who longed wistfully for school or a tutor, and beautiful Blanca, a jealous little snob who recognized cruelly last year's Callot model, this year's Chanel. The rest were the "steps" (stepchildren) - Zinnie, orange-haired little devil with a fiery temperament and exaggerated acquisitive instinct; Beechy and Bun, Italian...
...boy I believed in Buddha, but suddenly my mother fell ill. I prayed long and earnestly, and with full faith before our household Buddhistic idol but my mother died. That shook my faith in idols...
When he died, in 1925, 30 boy choristers sang at his funeral...