Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humor. Bradshaw's girl friend, gushing, giggling Helen Canfield, 26, a member of the Teamsters Union by virtue of her job as an egg-candler at an A. & P. warehouse, had the time of her life telling how the union enforcers stink-bombed Scranton's nonunion Sonny Boy Bakery...
...Moore, many moral Waterloos are lost on the playing fields of Saint Michan's. It is not a progressive school; in fact it is the most distressful college that has been seen since Dotheboys Hall. By confession and the cane, the clerical masters rule a cowed proletariat of boys and a middle class of lay masters. Dev may hand out "nippers" (cane on the hand) to his boys when they muck up a stanza from Shelley's To a Skylark or cannot explain the meaning of the Feast of Lupercal (a Roman fertility rite*), but he walks...
...most horrible touch of all-Dev is forgiven, and it is put about that "nothing" has happened. "If it wasn't so pitiful, it would be funny," says Una in an exact summary of the book itself. It is Dev's tragedy to remain a man among boys and a boy among...
This is a reactionary little exercise in nostalgia which will have a whole generation of fathers shaking their heads and murmuring, "Amen!" Novelist Robert Paul (So It Doesn't Whistle) Smith writes bluntly from the notion that, for small boys growing up, the good old days were best. The point is illustrated by the dialogue of the title-"Where Did You Go?" "Out." "What Did You Do?" "Nothing." Author Smith's belief is that today's parent too often knows where his boy has been, and that in all probability he or some teacher or other tiresome...
Just Dig a Hole. When Smith was a boy, he and his pals well understood "that the grownup was the natural enemy of the child, and if any father had come around being a pal to us we would have figured that he was either a little dotty or a spy. What we learned we learned from another kid." Smith is appalled to know that "kids in the Little League cry when they lose a game." What sensible man would deny that it was a healthier day when the brat ballplayer, unwashed and ununiformed, never cried "unless he caught...