Word: lad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Isherwood appeared for the first time on the U. S. scene, partly returned his compatriots' compliment by dedicating The Last of Mr. Norris to W. H. Auden. To canny readers, this salute was as unmistakable a signal as a finger laid to the nose: Author Isherwood is a lad of the new day, and oldsters had best avoid him altogether or loosen their collars before they begin to read...
...Canadian boy is eligible for the Alaska trip but he must take the initiative himself. One-third of the cost (which is $81 for boys under 12, $121 for those over) the lad must earn himself. Another third he must wangle from his parents. After that he will have little trouble getting the final third from Mr. Buchanan...
Appealing to the rest of the world to join France on the Soup Standard, Blue Ribboner Reeves-Smith, who worked as a lad in the discriminating French wine house of Calvet et Cie. in Bordeaux, declared, "In France the working classes have a higher standard of cooking, more interesting food and a greater variety of food at less cost than in England, notwithstanding that food is cheaper here...
...then called to the boy, "What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts...
...famous "Flying Stars" --diamonds of superb beauty, which he desires to place about the glorious neck of Miss Michael with whom he has fallen quite in love. Walter Connelly portrays the wise priest who takes it upon himself to straighten out the lives of Flambeau and his lovely lad. There is an undertone of quite humer and philosophic beauty which lifts the picture far above the limitations of its story...