Word: lad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debauching doesn't start, as you might think, with a cigar-smoking, sure-thing gambler shoving a wad of money in the direction of a convertible car-conscious lad old enough to vote...
...about a little boy who digs in the mudbanks for a living and decides one day that he would like to visit the Queen, who is living in seclusion at Windsor, mourning her fifteen-years-dead husband. It is an understandable wish, one that any red-blooded little English lad might well harbor, and as long as he is thwarted in his efforts the picture keeps up a lively pace...
...best of the new drawings are the eight personifications of the Houses. For obvious reasons, Dudley is a bushy-haired lad with a dubious expression and a book-bag suspended from his neck. For reasons obvious only to Braaten, Leverett has two heads, both fairly dull and sleepy looking, and one with a pimple on the end of its nose...
From an early age Christopher had a yen for the theater. At six, he appeared on the stage, in a civic pageant, and got his first critical notice. Said the local paper: "A lively and comely lad of tender years performed a hornpipe...
...forward to his experience with the bustard in the Southwestern desert. As a member of the Desert Rats, I view Dr. Bump's enthusiasm with alarm. The crime he intends to perpetrate upon our Southwest is far more serious than that wreaked upon Cambridge and Boston by the lad who introduced pigeons into that region...