Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nasty Little Boy...
Like in his first book, he seems like a nasty little boy that goes around telling all the dirty words he has learned and a few facts of life, as if no one ever had known them before. Wherein lies the goodness of this book; why waste good paper and ink on such silly stuff...
...vacations, raise choice broccoli, cantaloupe, a wide variety of herbs, vegetables and flowers, swim in the swimming pool that Design for Living paid for, pamper their dachshunds Elsa and Rudolf, indulge in fancy cookery, their mutual hobby. It is the same farm, lovingly elaborated, where Alfred lived as a boy. Natives still call him Bill, a nickname he got from worshipping a boyhood hero, Buffalo Bill...
...Speyer School. Their I.Q.s were from 130 to 200, the highest recorded rating, indicating potential genius. Chosen from regular New York City classrooms, they came from homes in all economic levels. Nor were they racially or nationally homogeneous. There were two Negro girls from Jamaica and a Negro boy from Haiti...
...medium between the two extremes of the big three. He is proud of his alma mater's name, but he is not like the weary Cantabridgian, weighed down by the responsibility of belonging to America's Oldest College, and, while he is still one of the just-a-big-boy school, he manages to escape the callowness of the Princeton man. The Yale man is a lively, boisterous, generous host, and the most rahrah college man cast of the Alleghenies . . . He is apt to be too clothes conscious, too worshipful of unpicturesque tradition, and too conscientious about his weekends...