Word: boyishness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...when suddenly Petrolle hit him with a terrific right-hand swing, opened a gash under his left eye. Through the rest of that round, and all succeeding ones, Petrolle chased McLarnin round the ring, landed accurate, hard left hooks, floored him twice in the fourth round, bashed his vainglorious, boyish face into a bloody muddle. McLarnin, half conscious, streaked with blood that oozed from his eyes, his nose and a cut in his lower lip, fought back with courage. He won the ninth round and staggered through the tenth somehow. Winner Petrolle may soon be matched with Lightweight Champion Tony...
...also may have had in mind the realization that his business, General American Tank Car Corp., is a youngman affair. Certainly the Board of Directors were of such a mind, for last week they chose as Mr. Mayer's successor in the presidency, Lester North Selig, slight, boyish-looking...
...soon as he heard the news, Mr. Sisto arranged to return to the U. S. In Wall Street where, boyish-looking, genial, he enjoys great popularity, the sympathy that would naturally be felt for him was heightened by the fact that he was known to have left believing all was well. Since a Stock Exchange house must be an indi vidual or partnership with one member on the Stock Exchange, not a corporation (with limited liability) , the bankruptcy of a firm means the bankruptcy of each and every partner...
Temple Tower (Fox). This is an attempted sequel to Bulldog Drummond, a picture hailed by critics as one of the best crook stories ever filmed. Temple Tower is silly, complicated. Kenneth McKenna, a slim and boyish sleuth who dresses in dinner clothes and an opera hat even while staying in a town defined by the local innkeeper as "the loneliest place in England," is engaged in tracking down an elderly emerald thief who lives in a tower equipped with bloodhounds, secret passages, a beautiful girl, and a masked hunchback with a penchant for strangling people with his bare hands. Typical...
...profoundly affects the whole body. It has sharp effect on the sympathetic nervous system and a profound effect on the genital apparatus. Overgrowth of the cortex is associated with precocious sexual development. Such overgrowth accounts for those rare cases where an exuberant girl changes into a shy boy with boyish hair on face, limbs and body, slim buttocks and thighs and certain internal atrophies and growths (TIME...