Word: lads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poor lad, he got his news-story back with a D--, inscribed, "This is the worst pretense at news-writing I have ever seen. No newspaper editor would even look at it." At a conference later this authoritarian view was amplified, the more so because the sophomore kept an heroic silence...
...John Simon were the principal speakers of the evening; and though Sir John carefully administered a slap on MacDonald's back, it was all too plain that the other assembled Tories had still some doubts of their new comrade. This is somewhat surprising, for though Ramsey, dear lad that he is, has led a rather contradictory career, one can be fairly safe in predicting that he has found his true spiritual home in the bosom of the Conservative Party. Here with chaste inflexion and earnest exhortation he can orate to sympathetic listeners, his phrases tumbling out in due procession, building...
...MASTER MURDERER - Carolyn Wells-Lippincott ($2). Fleming Stone pins the simultaneous slaughter of the four rich Everetts on the lad whose soup spoon wavered...
They asked one lad for a poem, and he replied enthusiastically that he was making a long satiric poem for them, after the manner of Dryden. The editors waited a long time for further news of the great work; were told that the poem was becoming difficult, and only half completed. The poet had struck some snags that never bothered Dryden, but was told to keep on and encouraged. After a few days strenuous wrestling with his verses the student telephoned the Critic office. He joyously told them that all his difficulties were over; he had solved the problem...
...Martin, a Canadian lad, about 19 yrs. old, hardy, robust and healthy, was accidentally shot by the unlucky discharge of a gun. . . . The whole charge, consisting of powder and duck shot, was received in the left side at not more than two or three feet distance from the muzzle of the piece, . . . carrying away by its force the integuments more than the size of the palm of a man's hand; blowing off and fracturing the sixth rib . . . , fracturing the fifth, rupturing the lower portion of the left lobe of the lung and lacerating the stomach by a spicule...