Word: hookey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overcome any dangerous tendencies toward skilful craftsmanship, and has turned out a most amazing burst of oozy sentiment. The jacket description of the plot follows: "Temporarily bored with civilization, its services, its ease and its sophisticatons, Walter Overlook breaks away from hs successful business in New York, and plays hookey in the Maine farming country, in the very house where he was born. After fifteen years he meets his boyhood sweetheart and finds her perfect in her country setting, but no longer of his world. This experience has an unexpected ending...
...Union, its secession and its return. He was a leading citizen of Texas and left his son a fortune that was comfortable but not superfluous. Edward M. House was reared in an atmosphere of war, violence, gunplay. His college career at Cornell was impaired by his frequently playing hookey to become a spectator of the game of politics, and ended at his father's death. In Texas as a young man he made himself famous as a political manager, by electing three governors in succession, each of them over the opposition of the political machine. Not until...
...penny, Jack" on his lips. If he is of the better type he sells papers--if not, he takes what he wants when he can get it. Sometimes he goes to school--when he thinks that he will be caught if he doesn't--and sometimes he "plays hookey...
...story of Enrico Caruso's life is that of his art. The two are inseparable, and so while the book is primarily concerned with Caruso's methods, a great deal of enjoyable biography creeps into it. Thus we hear of him as a schoolboy of Naples, playing hookey and swimming in the bay. He did not take kindly to education or to work in the De Lucca Mechanical Laboratories where his father was employed, and so on his mother's death, Enrico, aged fifteen, left home and became a scugnizzo, a wandering singer of the streets, singing...
...practice game with Browne and Nichols yesterday the Freshman hookey team outclassed their schoolboy opponents by the score of a goals to 2, shining especially in defensive work...