Word: boye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between a 60-year-old South Carolina Republican and a "furious youth" with long bleached hair, who ranted on behalf of peace. "I voted for the man who just went by," said the South Carolinian. "He's for peace, too. Didn't you hear his speech?" The boy sneered: "Words, words, words...
...pelts have quality, Carl, but they lack size." Mulling over this, Piampiano remembered a friendly Indian guide in northern Canada who had boasted of catching rare, big, square-nosed, smooth-haired mink. He wrote to the guide, asking for one of the brutes. Two years later, in 1951, "Big Boy" arrived in Zion and became founding father of a new breed...
...also as playful as a small boy, a trait that sometimes results in childishly prankish writing, atrocious puns and sub-college humor. Yet along with the impishness runs a strand of poignance and melancholy, a nostalgia for the paradise lost of childhood, quite possibly inspired by Nabokov's enforced early exile from his native Russia...
...boy seats himself in the course of his conversation opposite the girl. There is a wooden construction--a centrepiece--between them on the table. It is a bit like a castle, with parapets for salt, pepper, sugarbowl, and a container of lemon juice. There are also several knobs, and a window...
...campfire girl, who was seduced. Seduced by an old engine driver, called Ivor, who was a Welshman. Any Welshmen in the audience? Any people in the audience with their parents waiting outside to retain them? He was a Welshman anyway, and he seduced the campfire girl while her boy-friend was away working. And when he found out about it he forgave her, as all good boyfriends should when they find out their girlfriends have been hanging around. Anyway, the song's called 'A Quick One While He's Away...