Word: lads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schedule two years ago, he started a nationwide hunt that viewed 25,000 children before it ran to earth in St. Raymond's Parochial School in New York's Bronx. There a year ago Scout Oscar Serlin spotted curly-headed, freckled Tommy Kelly, an Irish lad of twelve, with an angelic face and mischievous eyes...
...unique wastrel against whom the New Life Movement struggled in vain was Chiang Wei-kuo. He is the son of a Japanese waitress & a Chinese official whom Generalissimo Chiang obliged by adopting the lad as his own son. In vain Chiang Wei-kuo was put under the direct control of Mme Chiang. She could do nothing with him. He was sent to Germany, last year suddenly appeared in London and forced the Chinese Delegation to the Coronation of King George VI to get him in on it and on all the best parties...
...youngster at Harvard, "Thorny" Thorndike began to study the instincts of chicks in his college lodgings in 1896. His landlady ousted his incubator as a fire hazard. So he moved it to the basement in the house of his teacher, a certain professor named William James. Next year the lad arrived at Columbia University to study under famed Psychologist J. McKean Cattell. Carrying two cages with the "most educated hens in the world," he sat down to rest on the steps of Seth Low Hall. A porter chased him away...
...father who was a woolen crape-maker by trade and a fencer by hobby and a mother who excelled in flower-painting had a child. His name was Thomas Gainsborough, and he was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. This lad early showed a natural talent for drawing; by the age of ten he had sketched every interesting tree and cottage around Sudbury. In his uncle's grammar school he filled his textbooks with caricatures of the schoolmaster...
...characteristic phenomenon among bright children, says Dr. Hollingworth. Many of them had not struck their parents as remarkable. Nor had they been particularly noted by their teachers, who observed only that, from having skipped grades, they were two or three years younger than their classmates. One 8-year-old lad, who had developed from the age of four a gift for drawing maps, had long been in conflict with his teacher over his habit of drawing them in the classroom after he finished his lessons. Said he: "When the teacher said, 'I must kill this map-drawing...