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...begin at 4:30 in the morning, when father was on early shift at the mine, and it would end in the night some time. Never can I remember her resting, except that once in a while she would be bothered by a sort of rheumatism. 'Oh, Henry lad. This shoulder is giving me gyp today,' she'd say, and ask me to rub the aching place with some oils she'd evolved herself...
...find no girl to go a la bois (parking), he may sop (drink) and get sobe (drunk). But a clanked lad sometimes decides to cooperate with the Vatican (the Administration building). He turns from a crip (easy course) and throws himself into cemetery working (tough studying). After hard work, his grades should be boxed, racked or knocked. But if he is still not sure whether he can grease (just pass), he may turn rider (cribber). He finds a pony to ride or gets a cheat sheet and then, all saddled up, feels ready to face even Flunkenstein, the prof...
...rubber balls to build up his hand and arm muscles (he still does), hoarding his dimes to buy a good glove. His throwing arm was soon strong enough to win bets from the unwary, and there are those in The Bronx who still claim that the 14-year-old lad once cleared the Claremont Parkway elevated station from a block away...
...folks would mutter, "A klug zu Columbus'n" whenever a boy got a bloody nose or the steam was not hot enough in the Turkish baths. Rough translation: "Columbus should have broken his head before he discovered America." But there were consolations. "For 2^ plain" a lad could buy a large glass of clear Seltzer. Flavoring cost a penny more, but sometimes he could persuade the counterman to "put a little on the top" for nothing. Jewish boys seldom learned to swim, says Golden, because the waterfront lay deep in Irish territory. The immigrants had an enormous respect...
...year-old son had been casually invited by his tennis instructor to join the famed West Side Tennis Club, scene of the biggest U.S. tournaments and within walking distance of Bunche's home. But when Ralph Bunche, a Negro, tried to arrange the light-skinned lad's membership with the club's president, a Manhattan public relations man named Wilfred Burglund, he got a blackball response: the biggest tennis club in the U.S.'s largest Negro community, the world's biggest Jewish community, excludes both Negroes and Jews. What's more, Burglund told Bunche...