Word: lads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduate of the Trinity Jesters, when motion picture performance were a roug unschooled let. His first picture was "War Brides." Under the acgis of David W. Gritlith, outmoded now, Barthelmess made long longstand outside of the theatres to see his Chinamth Broken Blossoms, with Lillian Gish, and his movie lad in Tellable David. In 1917 his Parent Leader had a pathos no story of a boxer has since...
...comfortable margin over the necessary three-fifths but not enough to take second place from a dark horse, Simon Newcomb who polled 78. That distinguished U. S. mathematical astronomer was born in Nova Scotia in 1835, ran away to the U. S. when he was 18. A pushing lad, he forced himself on the attention of Harvard scientists, soon overshadowed them. The last 30 years of his life were spent building up anew the theory and tables of the planetary system as well as writing such popular works as Astronomy for Everybody, The A B C of Finance...
...teacher of the conclave, really nothing more than a midwife to the student's thoughts was trying to pin a definition on said Natural Man. So Sairey Gamp, if we may make so bold, would ask each gentle youth in turn his opinion of the phenomenon in question. One lad said, "The Natural Man is a primeval creature without a soul." Another ventured, "The Natural Man is the superb laughty fellow who satisfies all his desires and passions, admitting no restraint or scruple...
...handsome, moody lad who had such a momentous dream was Kingsley Fairbridge, 12-year-old son of a British surveyor in Rhodesia. The year: 1897. For two days he had been camping on the veldt without food when, cresting a hill, he had a feverish vision. The veldt was transformed into fertile farms, peopled by British colonists. Some day, somehow, he resolved, he would bring those farmers to Rhodesia...
...Irish immigrant mother only that she once carried him through a maze of horse cabs across Broadway. Because his Aunt Ellen thought, "He got the callin'," Pat Hayes was sent to a school, later a college, run by the Christian Brothers. There he made friends with a younger, livelier lad named George Mundelein. Indifferent at games, Hayes was a brilliant student whose businesslike manner got him the highest undergraduate honor, the Moderatorship of the Sacred Heart Society. He went on to St. Joseph's Seminary (Troy, N. Y.) and Catholic University in Washington. After ordination in 1892 his rise...