Word: choirboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Stalin, onetime choirboy and theological student, now an apostate, created the Council for Religious Affairs last month. Last week in a pastel-green-walled suite, still smelling of paint and plaster, thick-lipped, bespectacled Ivan Vassilyvich Poliansky was busy considering and passing on the requests of all Soviet churches except the Russian Orthodox.* At work on the floor below was Georgi Gregorievich Karpov, chief liaison agent between the government and the Orthodox Church...
...ripe Celtic emotionalism of Kathleen Mavourneen. But Downey has an exceptionally high, sweet voice, which he uses with a redolent Paddyism irresistible to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Knights of Columbus, Westbrook Pegler and most Irishmen, genuine or occasional. His voice is so high that he says of his choirboy period "in the olden days they would surely have brought...
Then the Hopes migrated to Cleveland. There Bob ran around with a bunch of little toughies, filching apples from pushcarts, racking pool balls, selling papers (legend has it that John D. Rockefeller Sr. once rebuked Newsboy Hope for offering to trust him). He was also a choirboy until "in the middle of a lovely solo, my voice changed...