Word: boys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from 5:30 to 6:30 a. in., but kept to his bargain, and was amazed to have a breakfast set out before him consisting solely of a bounteous dish of ice cream. Feng had inquired what the American liked most to eat and then told his "number-one-boy" to provide it for his distinguished friend next morning. Said "number-one-boy" was reported to have spent most of the night with a staff of house servants in finding out how to make ice cream and getting ready this amazing breakfast...
...Unknown to Feng, the "Number-One-Boy" got Gailey to come at 3 a. m. to prepare the icecream which Feng had insisted upon having...
Orphan. Farmer boy. Colleague of Yaqui Indians. Keeper of a general store. Employe of a U. S. engineering firm. Rural politician. Recruiter of a two-thirds Indian army in the revolution against Dictator Porfirio Diaz who had been seven times President of Mexico-such was the manner in which Orphan Obregon became General...
Some thirty years ago, the widow Angeline Philippe looked hard at the small boy who stood beside her. She and her husband had named him Louis. By itself, Louis was perhaps the commonest name in all Paris, but Louis Philippe smacked of kingship. With such a name, a young Parisian should go far. It was unfortunate that she had scarcely enough money to clothe or feed...
...WITHERED ROOT-Rhys Davies-Holt ($2.50). "You Welsh! A race of mystical poets who have gone awry in some way." But this judgment by a cynical agnostic had no dampening effect on Reuben's religious fervor. Born of a stoic collier and a bibacious mother who starved the boy for affection, he was a child of curious, conflicting emotion. Gleefully he chopped up frogs and roasted mice alive; demurely he followed his father to church, and gradually religion won out-he was hypnotized, obsessed. Evenings, he pored over the Bible, sweated to convert his friend the agnostic. And evenings...