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...than on the day of the ticket sale. No one offered to kill the referees and no one screamed for the manager's scalp. If a score appeared imminent, spectators shouted a genteel, "have a go." A scoring failure was greeted with good-natured cries of "good try, lad." A finer scoring shot was rewarded with cries of "Smashing!" Arsenal scored late in the first half; in the second half, Chelsea tied it up in a melee in front of the Arsenal goal. It ended that...
...quasi-pragmatist I got quite a kick from your Adler article . . . Perhaps education is a racket, but as any high-school lad knows, there is none bigger than selling "Great Books" to hopeful parents, whereupon they collect dust and provide quarters for termites in the parlor...
Roughage. In Tokyo, after several sticks of dynamite disappeared from a munitions depot, cops combed the city for suspected terrorists, finally caught a rosy-cheeked lad who confessed to the theft and explained: "I ate them...
...cool moon shone through the clouds, a British steamer, the Wing Sang, slid comfortably through the calm waters of Formosa Strait. She was on her regular run from Hong Kong to Formosa. The ship's 78 passengers were dressing for dinner or sipping cocktails. A Chinese lad of ten raced wide-eyed through the closing pages of Treasure Island...
...Gallodoro's teen-age street urchins. If anything, this belief rather increases the townspeople's affectionate regard for the old reprobate. But a visiting English writer, his northern sense of fair play still intact, determines to force the duke to do right by the lad. Author Menen saves one ironic twist for the last: the boy almost disowns the duke...