Word: lads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nominee Curley has referred to Nominee Lodge as "a sweet boy with an illustrious name," intimated that he will be sorry to beat such a nice lad but "you can't send a boy on a man's errand. ' Boy or man, Cabot Lodge has run his political errands effectively in the past year. Driving about the State, sometimes traveling 1,000 miles a week, he showed the people of Massachusetts a friendly manner, a warm smile, proved himself a first rate speaker...
...Spain. Last week the Red Militia of Madrid got their hands on Don Cristobal Colon y Aguilera, 14th Duke of Veragua, 16th in descent from the Discoverer of America and breeder on his estates of some of the best fighting bulls in Spain. In 1893 the Duke, then a lad in short pants, was taken to see Chicago's Columbian Exposition. He never again visited the U. S. and refusing a U. S. offer of $428,000 for relics of the Great Navigator in his possession, sold them instead for $164,000 to the Spanish Government in 1926. Last...
Oldtimers in Boise like to tell of the Idaho farm boy who some years ago returned from a trip to their city, breathlessly told his father that he had seen the great Senator Borah. As proof, the lad said he had heard a number of Boise people addressing the stranger as "Senator." "Son," the farmer drawled, "those city slickers were fooling you. Now what in the world would a man like Senator Borah be doing in a place like Idaho...
...court for driving while drunk, smashing into a parked car, was Robert H. Ickes, 23, clerk on a PWA sewer project, adopted son of Secretary of the Interior & PWAdministrator Harold L. Ickes. Announcing he would fight the charges as "political," Secretary Ickes snapped: "To attack me over a young lad who is an innocent bystander and just trying to make a start in life. . I think that is pretty contemptable...
...through the forest to Youngstown, Ohio, Son William went there to study Latin with a clergyman. One day his devout mother knelt in her yard to pray that Son William might be educated for the ministry. Passing on horseback, Rev. Thomas Hughes heard her prayer, offered to take the lad free to his Old Stone School at nearby Darlington. William worked his way through Washington College, was licensed as a Presbyterian minister, branched out as a schoolmaster. Hired in 1826 by fledgling Miami, he arrived on his horse, in a sombre black coat and stovepipe hat, his saddlebags bulging with...