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...near the North Sea. Andrew, Linda's father, runs the farm as well as his Celtic irresponsibility allows. His wife Ellen, once a schoolmarm, has no use for irresponsibility, has less & less use for Andrew's ne'er-do-well ways. Her hopes in life she centres in her boys??? Stephen, the surly eldest; David, her favorite. When Linda comes she transfers a few dwindling hopes...
Next July, when he takes office, President Compton will have charge of 487 teachers, 2,868 undergraduates, and the nation's "Brightest" and "Second Brightest" boys???Wilber Brotherton Huston and Charles H. Brunissen, winners in last summer's Edison examinations (TIME...
...After all, old fellow, they are only boys???anything might happen. And so the first aid stations went...
Sherlock Holmes appeared, looking for the Party that lost the last election. There was a drama called "Under the Slippery Elms (of Vermont)" wherein "Pa" Butler and "Ma" Stearns were raising the Third-Term Baby. They had many farmhands and chore-boys???Calvin, Borah, Dawes, Lowden, Longworth...
CHEAT-THE-BOYS???Eden Phillpotts? Macmillan ($2.25). There were two women in Warner Lidgate's life : Betsy Neck, whom he should have loved; Gilyan Neck, whom he did. "Cheat-the-Boys" is the endearing nickname of Gilyan, who tosses the hearts of the youth of Devonshire about in a manner more piquant than kindly. Gilyan meant well by Warner, but the strings of their amours only became the more evolved, despite the timely arrival of Harold Lidstone, cousin from the city. Sunshine, ample-blossoms, cider, a deft and graceful style, carry the docile reader through unhurried pages of reflective charm...