Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he bowls he delivers the ball from a strange squatting position. When Manhattan Art Dealer Erhard Weyhe gave the little, round, friendly baker his first exhibition, loaves of bread were conspicuously scattered around the gallery. But Baker Ganso had never thought of himself as a baker. From boyhood he had been fixed on art, had baked for a living. When in 1912 he arrived in the U. S. he kept up both baking and art. In 1926 he began to be noticed. His etchings, lithographs and aquatints were better than his water-colors and oils but he kept...
Ralph Teetor, Lothair's cousin, has been blind since boyhood. This did not prevent him from graduating from University of Pennsylvania with honors in engineering or from designing most of the company's patented machinery. Tall, gaunt, he spent the War years working in a shipyard. The ship company tried to persuade him to stay with them but he was loyal to piston rings and returned to Hagerstown. He is sensitive about his blindness, walks alone to work each day without a cane and often goes for a stroll through the factory...
Samuel Insull still recalls with pride that he was born, 72 years ago, in England. From boyhood he had great admiration for Thomas Alva Edison. By a quirk of fate he answered an advertisement for a secretary, found out that the man who had inserted the advertisement was Edison's London representative. Edison was struck with Mr. Insull's weekly reports, sent for him in 1881. For eleven years they worked together, Mr. Insull learning much about the technical side of the young light & power business. In 1892 Mr. Insull wrote to the capitalists controlling four-year-old Chicago Edison...
...this boy to become a useful citizen. . . . No boy of twelve can be a murderer at heart. . . . I now have the pleasure of watching a 10-year-old lad at our Home, also once charged and convicted of murder, developing into a fine specimen of American boyhood...
...social class endowed with that integrity and intelligence which made him the symbol of a nation. But in his analysis the author has never lost sight of the fact that his subject was a man and not a political theory. There are long passages faithfully describing his boyhood which offer valuable insight into the character of the man. In a fine chapter on Washington as a Virginia baron Mr. Fay accomplishes the dual purpose of constructing a Washington of flesh and blood and of portraying the haleyon feudal civilization that was Virginia's. Believing that the key to many...