Word: lad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solemn Whig lad, David Balfour of Shaws, 14-year-old Freddie Bartholomew may be a shade on the jackanapes side for those who want their Stevenson straight, but he fits this feckless Fox version. Gibbous nose aloft and in fine priggish voice, Master Freddie imparts phonetic reality to an age when Britishers wrote s's that looked like...
There was plenty of beefing from the Bruins after Umpire Connors ruled the final out at first base with the bases leaded in the fourth. The Brown centerfielder went so far as to infer that Connors ancestors had not come ever it the Mayflower. The irate lad drew exiling for his efforts...
Flynn got his first cinema job through a group of film makers who remembered him as a stalwart lad whose boat had taken them on a camera expedition up New Guinea's dangerous Sepik River. The offered role turned out to be that of Fletcher Christian, in a film to be called In the Wake of the Bounty. In an old blond wig ("which made me look like a harlot") he swaggered for a week or so at $5 a day on the poop of a grounded H. M. S. Bounty on rockers. After the completion of the film...
...feebler than the last. Such was the case with Katherine Mansfield; such is now the case with A. E. Housman. Admirers of Housman who have to sit helplessly by while his brother Laurence continues his well-meaning but damaging publications may well feel that the line from A Shropshire Lad...
Like enough, you won't be glad, When they come to hang you, lad. But bacon's not the only thing That's cured by hanging from a string...