Word: all-boys
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...host, Mayor Thomas Bradley, refused to attend. Suddenly the club seemed rather too exclusive even for Philip's gentle blood. Being a proper guest, he deigned not to go where his host would or perhaps could not. Jolly good no-show, especially for a member of such all-boy, old-boy bastions as White's club in London...
What's in a name? I'll tell you. It's not who you are but where you are that counts. For years, in addition to constant mispronunciations of my first name, I had to endure the humiliation of being assigned to an all-boy cabin in summer camp, and the embarrassment of an arrest warrant for failure to pay a male poll tax when I lived in Brookline...
...SEGREGATION. Compulsory segregation by sex is to be banned in both classes and school-funded extracurricular activities. Gone will be such hoary educational standbys as all-girl home-economics classes and all-boy shop classes, along with all-boy and all-girl phys.-ed or hygiene courses...
...today, though desegregated on paper, circumventions continue. Private academies were established by parents who could afford to buy segregation. Some public schools integrated their enrollments, but not their classrooms: a favorite dodge is segregation by sex, thus, an all-girl history class drones through the same material that an all-boy class covers in a room down the hall...
...Jewish scripture, they have always occupied an inferior position in the Jewish religious structure as ";a nation unto themselves." Born in Cavalla, Greece, of Russian parents, Mrs. Robbins moved with her family to Danzig in 1928 when she was only five, soon became the only girl in the all-boy choir at the synagogue there. Although she took no formal music training, she loved to listen to the cantors sing, learned all the principal chants by heart...