Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tennessee has just attained to the major league of college football this year, then the Yankees were unheard of before their invasion of Cincinnati and Joe Louis was just another Detroit boy with a bad temper before he pommelled Lou Nova...
...Brooklyn boy was not brash. He was smart, and a coward. It was a healthy combination. Johnny Torrio was shot up and fled. The last of the opposition, remnants of the O'Banion gang, were ambushed in a Clark Street garage on St. Valentine's Day in 1929, machine-gunned...
Sunday: John turned out to be a typical Harvard glamour boy with crew haircut, broad A accent, short trousers, and all the fixings. He writes for the "Crimson" and is absolutely death on the tutoring schools. After three ales he kept mumbling something about sticking to his ideals and keeping away from the "wolf" even if it means flunking out next semester. I tried to be sympathetic, but then deliberately referred to the "yard" as the "campus" when I found out he'd already invited a date for the Yale game. --Escort
...expressions of opinion only in the class-room is a direct contradiction of a basic tenet of American education--objectivity. Such interpretation in education can be justified only by assuming that all the facts about the war have been proved, which is not the case. Then, too, school-boy minds are very easily swayed; the teacher's words are the gospel truth. Certainly a teacher has a right to present his interpretation of the facts. But he must not substitute this interpretation for the facts themselves; it must not pose as the truth...
...weather: "My shoes in the wardrobe are wet, my clothes on their hangers wilt, the cough drops melt in the corked bottle, and the envelopes in the desk all seal themselves." Of servants there were five, among them a little native boy, one of whose chief duties was "to stand with his small bare feet apart and whistle fuzzily." Of household pets there were swarms, domestic and wild...