Word: boys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday the House members went to their chamber for Mr. Madden's state funeral, a rare honor that was accorded him. Mrs. Madden took the body for burial to Hinsdale, Ill. So ended the career of an immigrant boy from England who, working in a stone quarry, lost his foot and instead of suing the company rose in it, became president, grew rich, entered politics, stayed honest, gained fame...
...Samborski '31, hurling ace on Exeter's 1927 aggregation, will face his old rival for mound honors R. F. Coombs, captain and versatile star of the school boy outfit, in this afternoon's encounter...
...auctioneer dropped his hammer and a boy trotted out behind the curtain to lift The Harvest Waggon off the stage and replace it with Frans Hals' A Young Cavalier. Sir Joseph Duveen had just bought the Gainsborough for a price that set a record for U. S. picture auctions. The painting, a large canvas into which the artist had put portraits of two of his daughters as well as a wagon, a team of horses and a broken shower of golden light, was indubitably the finest single piece offered in the sale of the collection that had belonged...
...world's record for public art auctions; this is $370,000 which Sir Joseph Duveen paid for Lawrence's Pinkie, in England. The world's record price for a single painting was also paid by Sir Joseph Duveen; $850,000 for Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, which he bought direct from the Duke of Westminster...
...loveliest lady who had ever stayed at the inn, lying in a disheveled bed, beside the town drunkard. She helped Linda get the smooth slick townboy that her sister had always loved; and she observed with hurt wonder and dismay the way her own high-school boy friends turned away from her as they grew old enough to appreciate the fact that her guardian ran a fairly disreputable boarding place. When the old lodger in the garret died, his grandson came west from Harvard. He was what Dorrie had wanted and she, apparently, suited...