Word: boys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thither from Chicago went Dr. Tenerowicz in 1923, because he heard it was a "promising city" where thousands of Poles "needed guidance." Dr. Ten was a one-time breaker-boy from the coal mines of Punxsutawney, Pa. (pronounced Punk-soo-tawney). He had studied medicine at Loyola University, served in the Army Medical Corps. Eloquent and energetic, combining politics with doctoring like Michigan's late Royal S. Copeland, who became Senator from New York, Dr. Ten was only five years in becoming Hamtramck's mayor...
Maitre Moro-Giafferri has won many famous French criminal cases. His most celebrated defense, although it failed, was that of "the French Bluebeard," Henri Desire Landru, accused of butchering ten women and a boy. The defense arguments in this case are still regarded by members of the Paris bar as tops in technical perfection and legal virtuosity. Landru was guillotined February...
...Dwyer and Miss O'Brien had gone to the Bowie race track outside Washington, had chipped in $1 apiece to place a bet on the daily double, selecting No. 1 (a long shot named Charles F.) for the first race and No. 9 (a longer shot named James Boy) for the second race-just because they liked the number...
Then when James Boy, a seven-year-old, suddenly zoomed from last place to win by half a length, the two Washington women rushed hysterically to the cashier's window...
...perplexed Parisian newshawks Gertrude Stein explained a libretto she has just completed for her second opera,* a Steinish version of Faust: Faust "sells his soul over and over again hoping to go to hell. He kills his boy and dog to really sin and go to hell and is turned into a young man. But Marguerite denies he is Faust and because he cannot prove it he finally just fades away. Yes, it is rather amusing." From one of the Stein songs: "The devil what the devil do I care if the devil is there. . . . And you wanted my soul...