Word: lad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member, while Dave was making speeches at union meetings." But in 1925, when the Teamsters held their national convention in Seattle, it was Speechmaker Beck who caught the favor of International President Dan Tobin. Says another old Teamster: "Dan thought he could control a nice, clean-cut lad like Dave Beck." Result: Brewster was bypassed, and Beck got the promotion-promising job as I.B.T. organizer in Seattle...
...plot advances with what at first seems blissful naivete, but the dependable simplicity and expectability of nearly everything soon becomes a pleasant, quiet part of Wee Geordie's world. Geordie is painfully tiny as a bright young lad. He enrolls in Mr. Samson's Home Bodybuilding Course. When next seen, at the age of twenty-one, he is a well-built tower, about six and one-half feet high. He wins the hammer throw in the Olympics, and then promptly renounces athletics to return to his highland lass, and to resume the idyllic life as the Laird's head gamekeeper...
Suddenly a hush came over the crowd, and somebody started playing "Pomp and Circumstance" on the piano. I saw Carroll dashing to some pre-arranged place, and a solemn lad strode up on the stage carrying a little pot. A Pudding pot, I assume. Someone started giving a speech, and I drifted over to check on Miss Baker...
...need for a new code has been long felt in the industry and most directors have become quite adroit at suggesting rather than stating the obvious, or implying one thing and saying another. The movie-version of Tea and Sympathy for instance, turned a lad suspected of homosexuality into an introvert who didn't like sports. But the theme of The Man With the Golden Arm could not be twisted enough to fit inside the limits of the Old Code. As one wit put it, "You just can't make a dope addict into an off-beat character." The film...
...Edward was a Shropshire lad, the son of a gardener, and he knew his place. At Merryns, the stately home of Lord and Lady Cedely, he shed a footman's livery and became Edward, the beloved family retainer ("Six foot of superb young animal. If he was a horse, I'd give three hundred guineas for him," said his lordship). He had a peerless touch with silver teapots and under-footmen, could fold a table napkin into a water lily, and the young people adored him. Alas, he adored one of the young people, the Honorable Isobel Lintern...