Word: lad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perjury in denying that he had passed secret Government papers to onetime Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers, was handed a summons by a Manhattan cop. The charge, followed by a plea of guilty: playing catch in a restricted area of Washington Square Park with son Tony, 13, and another lad. Penalty: a $3 fine...
...Herzfeld brothers and McCulloch. during a visit to Milwaukee to see his father (his mother renounced all claims to the custody of her son when she divorced his father in 1920, and a trust of upwards of $300,000 was set up and later turned over to the lad). Schlesinger said that his mother had put $500,000 in a "hush-hush" Louisiana oilfield. As recounted in the indictment, he said that "Mrs. Harrison Williams had authorized him to sell a 10% interest in the Louisiana Oil Syndicate [through Glore, Forgan] to afford Glore, Forgan an opportunity to make...
When Lillie, the judge's golden-haired daughter, caught the eye of Jess Knight, a local farm lad, Judge Milner influenced Jess to get a law degree after he got Lillie's hand. Jess and Lillie obediently went off to the University of Michigan...
...odds-on favorite to win his eleventh race in a row, Paul Andolino's disheveled little sprinter, Boston Doge, just could not get going on Belmont's damp track, finished a bad third behind Nance's Lad and Informant in the Swift Stakes...
...precocious witness to the hard scriptural paradox that he who loses his life shall find it. Seventeen and in love, Kim knocks around the Baltic as an apprentice on a three-masted schooner, fighting for peace within, while World War II rages around him. Soon this unschooled lad, who can write so tenderly to his sweetheart ("May you sleep as sweetly as a water lily on a pond"), is looking into the hearts of others-the cough-racked Finnish soldier riding a blacked-out bus near the front, the old Danish widow clinging to life by keeping a dried...