Word: lad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frederick James Cox first popped up among the shelves and stacks of the London Library when he was a lad of 16. In those days, the library was only 41 years old-a private place of study, established by men like Thomas Carlyle who wanted something more convenient and less crowded than the British Museum. Mr. Cox never knew Mr. Carlyle; nor did he know such early readers as Napoleon III and Lord Macaulay. But he used to chat with Gladstone ("When you opened a door for him, he always raised his hat"), and he remembers Herbert Spencer struggling over...
...Texas gets its 65-minute message across without gunplay. The hero, a rancher named Jim Tyler, is a pleasure-loving lad, overfond of broncho-riding, cattle, land and oil. His sister Kay has been converted at a Billy Graham prayer meeting, and she tries to get Jim to see the light. It's no use, until he gets a bad spill from a broncho and has to go to the hospital...
Just what their intentions were, or what they were looking for--if anything--never became clear, as the pursuers made a basty escape. But the skivvy-clad lad, who claimed to be something called a "Deke," was hurriedly covered up with a pair of blue jeans and transported back to the institution down the river...
...free Punch & Judy show, and a contest to see who could climb to the top of a greased pole. There was even some mingling between the two worlds. One reporter spotted Mme. Louis Arpels (her husband is the famed Paris jeweler) dancing with an open-shirted Venetian lad in the courtyard...
...eighteenth cenutry, tutors had their own chambers, and during the disorderly period of the Revolution, if not before, the undergraduates began to look upon them as their natural enemies. A lad who treated his tutor as a friend was looked down upon as a 'fisherman', and the tutors regarded the undergraduates as inmates in a reformatory...