Word: lad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomas Parr, a Shropshire lad, who lived, by his own unauthenticated and undocumented account, almost 153 years, was a contemporary of Shakespeare and of Dr. William Harvey. The Anatomical Examination to which TIME refers was Harvey's report of an autopsy performed upon Parr by order of the King, Charles I ... Many books of general reference mention Parr. His outstanding honor in comtemporary literature is his appearance on page one of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake...
...attend to some politicking. While there, Churchill was entertained by the local Liberal Party campaign chairman, a wealthy Jewish cotton merchant named Nathan Laski. No one seems to remember whether he met Laski's 13-year-old son, a bright-eyed, dark-haired lad named Harold Joseph...
Novelist Goudge's first concern is to stake out a field of action on some safe old ground, and stock it with standard breeds of characters. First she introduces Mr. Midshipman Anthony Louis Mary O'Connell of the British navy around 1800, a lad with "delicate lips and flaring nostrils . . . of a startled horse." Anthony deserts ship after being spread-eagled in the rigging for two hours. Ashore he meets Stella Sprigg, a girl whose "swift graceful movements were those of ... a faun or gazelle . . ." They fall in love, but Anthony, flaring his nostrils, rejoins the navy...