Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montclair, N. J. last week Guy B. Rose, principal of Glenfield Elementary & Junior High School, was charged with beating 11-year-old Delardo Leva about the head and back with a rubber hose ("gold-fish"). Sabatto Leva, father, declared that as a result his son had contracted rheumatic fever aggravated by a weakened heart. Principal Rose was paroled pending grand jury action...
...Author, With her fourth novel (The Pitiful Wife, 1923), Margaret Storm Jameson (Mrs. Guy Chapman) made critics stop, look, listen. Her formula, a combination of hard masculine realism with feminine deftness and sympathy, pleased many a post-War reader cloyed with hard-boiled sentimentality. Onetime dramatic critic, publisher, copywriter, editor, she has done a good deal for her 36 years in a man's world. Brought up among ships in Yorkshire's Whitby (her grandfather, George Galilee, was a shipowner) she longed to build them, had to content herself with listening to tall seafaring tales. After graduating from...
...this point Mrs. Wanderwell came forward with the announcement that "a thousand people" might have wanted to kill her swashbuckling husband. She told of his recently fighting with a visitor at their apartment. She said she only knew the man as "Guy" but she produced a photograph of him. Day later police located a Welshman named William James Guy, 24, in a shack in the Los Angeles River bottoms. He admitted he "hated Wanderwell" because the Captain had once left him and his wife "on the beach" in Panama in the course of a Wanderwell tour. He also admitted illegal...
Over the side went a Jacob's ladder and guy ropes. In rain and darkness a little group of seamen stood by the rail. In the center stood the Conte di Savoia's commander, sparse little Captain Antonio Lena. "It is my duty and mine alone to go down the side!" cried the Captain...
This is the main plot line of Central Park, but the picture is full of extraordinary bypaths. A lunatic appears in the zoo and tries to get even with one of the keepers for not feeding the animals enough meat. An aged policeman (Guy Kibbee) loses his badge for failing to apprehend the lunatic but not until a lion (Jackie, of the Selig Zoo, Los Angeles) has escaped from his cage and crawled into a taxicab from which he presently emerges to enter the Casino just after its guests have survived the shock of the holdup. All this assorted violence...