Word: lad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Outlook & Independent, grew caustic at The Book of Simon's expense, said she was staggered at "the increasing disposition of Englishmen to become mothers." Said she, what will Simon do when he grows up and sees what his father wrote about him? "There will be nothing for the lad to do except embark on deed after deed of violence, rising to a climax of unimaginable crime. . . . In fact I can imagine that in 1950 the names Christopher Robin and Simon may not mean at all what they do to the belletrist public of today. They may mean something...
What should a lad do between the ages of 18 and 22: go to work? go around the world? go to college? Said Dr. Samuel Smith Drury, rector of St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.) in his annual report last week: "Let a father ask his boy: 'Do you want to invest four years of your life while I invest $10,000 of family money in this venture?' " Let them not assume that "a boy whose father can afford it should go to college regardless of profiting thereby...
...Guaranty Trust Co, New York Transportation Co. In 1909 he organized the first international polo team to beat England, was never beaten while captain. He maintained the largest of U. S. racing stables, championed and improved the breeding of purely U. S. horses. Among his winners: Irish Lad Regret (only filly ever to win the Kentucky Derby), Whiskery, Whichone, Equipoise, Boojum...
Edevart was a simple lad. Even in the far-from-sophisticated Norwegian village of Polden there were sharper wits, more skeptical memories than his. But Edevart was willing to learn about life. When young vagabond August drifted into the village, smiled and showed his gold teeth, told whopper after whopper about his adventures, Edevart heard his vocation calling. He and August became "buddies...
What saps a nation's strength and pride? What cramps its manly form and stride, And turns its youth, unsanctified, To Coiltrils and carousers? What spreads corruption's baleful breed And makes the stoutest lad weak-kneed? Be warned--it is, it is indeed The cursed cult of trousers...