Word: bootblacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the vogue of any of the above-named gentry has entirely gone by. Tattered Tom, the bootblack, is still able to thrill adolescent readers as he helps the white-haired old gentleman across the street to receive in recompense a bright silver dollar and a great deal of moral advice. The athletic English striplings of Henty's confection continue to slay their thousands in every known historical period. But the last few years have only brought forth one writer with a true genius for the " children's story," Hugh Lofting, and he belongs rather with Lewis Carroll...