Word: christopolus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven years ago an orphan named Peter Christopolus was taken into Rev. Edward J. Flanagan's Boys' Home in Omaha, Neb., famed model institution. A good worker, 14-year-old Peter Christopolus was rewarded for his "model behavior" this summer by getting his picture printed in the Boys' Home magazine, in overalls like the other orphans. The picture came to the attention of one Jean Strengs, French-born proprietor of a Paterson, N. J. dye works. Dyer Strengs was struck by Peter Christopolus' resemblance to his own son, who had been drowned at 17 a year...
Though they dressed Peter Christopolus up and tried to make him one of the family with effusive demonstrations of affection, again before press cameras, the Strengs soon decided that Peter would not do. They called him "disobedient" and "arrogant." They thought he was too cocky about his sudden good fortune. They said he was sullen and grudging about helping with household tasks. One morning last week Dyer Strengs awakened Peter Christopolus, told him he was to go back to the Boys' Home in Omaha. Later he explained to newshawks : "We gave him his chance and he failed to make...
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