Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board Mrs. Pond watches over the health of her charges, supervises the cook, only professional member of the crew. The Indra stays at anchor every morning until the pupils have finished their reading and recitations. Seaman Pond does not stand in awe of College Boards. Says he: "Any boy this side of imbecility can be prepared to enter college...
...propaganda piece, however, it is as brutally effective as a meat-ax, contains enough obviously first-hand documentation, along with its exaggerations, to deter hundreds of parents from sending their sons to schools which they may suspect of resembling Stone Ridge Military Academy ("You Give Us The Boy, We Return...
Married. Betty Baden-Powell, daughter of Lieut.-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides (British Girl Scouts); and Gervas Clay, Rhodesia official; in Bentley, England...
...this cheery conversation, Eleanor and her sister were even more put out when their father, desiring to warn them against sin, would remark dolefully that he would rather see them in their grave than doing any one of a great number of things- using rouge, receiving the attentions of boys, kissing, being bad generally. Finally they came to believe that their father would rather see them in their grave than doing anything. They studied books calculated to deepen their "modesty of mien and deportment." Learning that men were apt to be turned into "wild beasts" if such modesty was departed...
...children's mother, their father's second marriage and their struggles with their stepmother. Occasionally, like Clarence Day's Life With Father, it suggests that domestic repression and tyrannies created harrowing situations scarcely compatible with the light, affectionate tone in which they are described. When a boy walked home from school with Eleanor it was classified as an "attention" and one of the things her father would rather see her in her grave than see her receive. Eleanor was so concerned she decided to run away, become a missionary and eat cannibals...