Word: lads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shinnecock Hills, L. I., Stewart Sheftal, 17, learned his golf. He has since been an expatriate, living in Paris. Last week he crossed the English Channel, went to Formby, England, defeated Archibald Dobbie, Scotch lad, for the British boys' open championship, 6 and 5. His was the eighth victorious U. S. invasion of notable British golf tournaments...
...Happy Mountain boasts nothing unusual in the way of story: in the springtime a virile lad, poet at heart, leaves his narrow mountain home to see the world. In the autumn he comes back a little worse for wear, disillusioned as to the great beyond. More distinctive than the story is the pungent language...
Charles of Flanders, who was but a lad when the War came, stood silent with modestly bowed head during the British singing, beside Edward of Wales, 34, his senior by exactly a decade. Later the two princes, chatting affably, walked together the gauntlet of clicking cameras, mooning women...
...leaped from his car, sprinted to the scene of action, separated three Negro caddies of the Congressional Club. But his arrival was too late to prevent the fracturing of one little Negro's skull by a bigger Negro with a stick. Secretary Wilbur rushed the injured lad to the Congressional Club for medical attention...
League postpones settlement of so many major issues, was geniality itself. "The explanation," said he, "is similar to the point of an anecdote told me recently by an American friend. It seems that one of your schoolmasters had asked a lad to form a sentence using the word 'diadem.' The pupil replied, 'People who drink bootleg diadem sight quicker than those who don't. . . .' You catch my meaning, I am sure...