Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born in Berlin in 1882, Herman Bundesen was growing up to be a Chicago street Arab when, as the story goes, a kindly Reformed Episcopal bishop, whose silk topper young Herman had smashed with a snowball, took him to Sunday school, reformed him. While Herman's two closest boyhood chums applied themselves to prodigal careers which subsequently landed them in jail for life for murder, Herman worked his way through Northwestern University Medical School, winding up on the Chicago Board of Health. As the Board's publicity-loving chief during the regimes of Mayors William Hale ("Big Bill...
...next May 19 on the sole issue of the Hoffman Case. "For five years," declared he, "I have taken no part in New Jersey political affairs other than to support the candidates of the Republican Party. I belong to no faction within the Party. But from my earliest boyhood two pictures stand out in my memory. One is of Jersey justice as an ideal of fair but unswerving enforcement of law through the orderly processes of the courts. The other is that the office of Governor is one of dignity and honor. When a Governor makes a mockery...
Entitling his complete series "The Renewal of Words," Mr. Frost delivered the opening talk last Wednesday on "The Old Way to Be New." In this meeting, he emphasized the importance of sincerity and originality in writing poetry. Citing several incidents in his own boyhood, the poet discussed the goals he thought should be aimed at by young writers...
...fresh access of longing for the satisfaction of a great desire" asserted the poet, in discussing the quality of sincerity of emotion in poetry. To illustrate the kind of imaginative seizure that every true poet undergoes when he writes a poem, Mr. Frost cited an incident in his own boyhood in California...
Oliver's second rebuff is deeper and more poignant. Since his boyhood he has felt a strong affection for Rose Darnley, younger sister of his father's old companion, a graceful, sensitive girl whose temperament is somewhat like his own. During the War, when Oliver is certain that he is going to be killed, when his failure to solve the moral problems that oppress him has led to his physical breakdown, he proposes to Rose that she marry him so that he may leave his fortune to her. But Rose has fallen in love with Mario, although Mario...