Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hannibal, Mo., Christopher Morley, author, and Carter Davidson, president of Knox College, visited Mark Twain's boyhood home, found some unpainted pickets on a fence between the house and the Mark Twain Museum, rolled up their sleeves, white-washed the fence...
With its excellent descriptions of Florida scrub landscapes, its skillful use of native vernacular, its tender relation between Jody and his pet fawn, The Yearling is a simply written, picturesque story of boyhood that stands a good chance, when adults have finished with it, of finding a permanent place in adolescent libraries...
...Adolf approached the provincial capital at Linz, Austrian crowds were cheering everyone they could think of, even bellowing "Hell Ward Price!" since this British journalist is pro-Nazi and works for Lord Rothermere who is always received by Hitler when in Berlin. A schoolmaster of Hitler's boyhood, now nearly 80, had come tottering to see his pupil, the Führer, enter Linz, and a rollicking song rose with the chorus: "Today Germany is ours! Tomorrow the whole World...
Meanwhile Schuschnigg. Jesuit fathers correctly judged Kurt Schuschnigg in his boyhood to have the character of a great fighting Catholic, such as, for example, Ferdinand Foch. Schuschnigg, Jesuit-trained, brilliant and devout, fought in the World War right up to the Armistice, at which time he laid down his arms on Austria's Italian front. It was then, as Dr. Schuschnigg has bitterly complained in his memoirs, that some Scottish soldiers who had been aiding the Italians took not only his rifle and ammunition but also his watch, his ring and his pocketbook. After this he never again felt...
Author Seabrook got the idea by looking around at his foreign-born neighbors in the Hudson River's Rhinebeck Valley, where he owns an eight-acre farm., In his boyhood days in Maryland and Kansas these neighbors would have been called dumb Swedes, squareheads, Dagos, Polacks, Heinies, wops, troublemakers, agitators and so forth. In Rhinebeck they were just neighborly Americans, Republicans, Democrats. Seabrook had a hunch that elsewhere in the U. S. the foreign born were equally good citizens. He decided to take a look for himself...