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...notes under the mattress. A Chicago professor notes the prevalence of "unspecified emotional disturbances," such as "the traumatic experience of a boy who, discovering his roommate was a homosexual, just wasn't able to study." Another up-to-date excuse, says the same professor, came from a lad who missed an exam and explained: "My roommate is going with a colored girl. Last night his father came to town to shoot the girl, and we were up all night barricading the door to keep him from...
...first problem, I think, is that Miss Ward is a woman. She insists on calling Keats a "lad," she has terrible chapter titles like "Soundings and Quicksands." Rather than pay attention to the sources, she habitually imagines what Keats "must have felt." Bate, when he has no evidence for someone's state of mind, says so; Miss Ward blends speculation with fact to suit herself...
...next!" With this kind of talk it is not very surprising that Momma Winger's sprouting twelve-year-old son Newt turns out to be a high-spirited youth who would rather poke curiously into an anthill than do the family chores. Predictably, too, Newt is a bright lad, and getting on for a strong one. He is chosen to give the speech at his graduation. Put in late in a basketball game, he emerges as a high scorer. He defeats the local bully in a vicious fight...
...This is a great shortening of labor and saves many mistakes." Viewing his office as one of the kingdom's greatest, which it still is, Jowett once found something "offensive to God and highly displeasing to me." No friend of doubters, Jowett is supposed to have warned one lad: "If you do not believe in God by 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, you will be sent down" (booted...
...parasols, men in impeccable white flannels and striped blazers, and always behind them, behind everything, the grass was green." He developed a taste for fox hunting, for racing and for thoroughbreds; when in 1936 he bought his first 18th century English painting, it was a picture of a stable lad and a horse named Pumpkin by the great George Stubbs. The work was an admirable choice, for few men have raised the art of animal portraiture to such perfection as Stubbs...