Word: boys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Cabin-boy on a whaler, sheepherder, newsgatherer, fingerprint expert at a penitentiary, college professor (Smith, Simmons), social worker (with Jane Addams in Chicago), are some of the things Thames (pronounced Tahm'-ez) Ross Williamson has been. Besides novels he has written textbooks on economics, sociology. His novels (Stride of Man, Run Sheep Run, Gypsy Down the Lane) are meant to constitute a U. S. panorama. He was born on an Indian Reservation near Genesee, Iowa, 35 years ago of U. S. parentage...
...Lakeview, Chicago district, a boy, seven, fell off his front steps, was taken to a hospital. "What's your name?" asked the interne. Said the youngster: "Orange." A nurse brought him an orange. ''What's your name?" asked she. "Apple," replied the seven-year-old. Brows knit, the nurse looked in the telephone book, summoned Orange Apple Sr., father of the child...
...delivered meat, sold newspapers, sang in a choir. His parents hoped he would become a rabbi. At the age of nine he had been studying the Talmud for three years. In 1906 Sarnoff Sr. died. In the same year young David got a $5 job as messenger boy with Commercial Cable Co. He saved $2, bought a telegraph instrument, soon was a junior telegraph operator with the old American Marconi...
...clerk to the trustees, mingle with solid people, spend little. A sanctimonious social life satisfied him, but high school did not. Though nattered by his academic nickname, "The Deacon," he was lured early by Business. Leaving school two months after his sixteenth birthday in 1855, he soon became office-boy in a warehouse on a day since reverenced by the Rockefeller clan. Never the mythical, poverty-stricken Rockefeller boy, he became at 17 a trustee of the Erie Street Baptist. He was junior partner and bookkeeper of the young but prosperous firm of Hewitt and Tuttle. Ecstatically, auto-suggestively...
...little maids in flaring bright dresses, a golden-banged boy in absurdly small trousers?the Sackville children played on the greensward around their great ancestral Knole House, Sevenoaks, Kent.* There John Hoppner painted their portrait, a distinguished, worldly man who found innocence a better subject than sophistication. In 1797 his picture was finished, hung in Knole House. It has been there ever since...