Word: boys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boy in the Summer Sun," a short story by Mark Schorer, instructor in English, has been included in Edward J. O'Brien's collection, "Best Short Stories of 1937," appearing...
...Vagabond was sitting at the end of a grey stone pier dangling his legs out over the water's edge like a little boy. In mind he was as happy as the blithest child of ten, for free at last of Divisional he had come down to the seashore to watch the last splashes of paint go on his boat before she went over into the water for another season. Clad in a blue Brittany shirt, bleached and streaked with white from long hours in the sun, knee length shorts that showed pock-marks of paint of as many colors...
...modesty to be replaced by an aggressive desire not to go home. Last week, he was running for the nomination to succeed himself against Mr. Berry who is an ex-cowboy, wears a white sombrero, and once astounded a Washington redcap by stepping off a train and shouting "Hell, boy, where's the water-hole?" When the votes were tallied, Mr. Hitchcock came in a bad third, behind a Congressman named Fred Hildebrandt, leaving Rooseveltian Mr. Berry with nothing between himself and the Senate but the November elections. His Republican opponent will be Chandler Gurney-who lost a close...
...killing a man, tall, grey-eyed Laramie Nelson observes some gunmen ride into his grove, tie a rope around the neck of a 20-year- old cowboy and throw it over the branch of a tree. "I cain't fool about heah an' see yu hang thet boy," drawls Laramie. The next 327 pages tell how Laramie and the cowboy become close friends, how they rescue another cowpuncher, and how the three then hide out on a Colorado ranch owned by an Eastern tenderfoot named Lindsay. On this ranch there are three beautiful daughters, surrounded by mean, sneaking...
This is a very practical solution of the educational problem of your young blades. If they must see La Bella Rand, it's cheaper to pay a boy's tuition at Harvard for four years than to pay the check if he goes to a Broadway night club...