Word: newsboy
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...Cabots speak only to God," and substituted Loyolas for Lowells "with more than unsatisfactory results." The second occurs in the last paragraph of the book. It depicts the students and Father Feeney studying "The Doctors, Popes, and Saints of the Church with a longing for the day when a newsboy will be heard running down from Harvard Square, with headlines in his hand and a shout in his voice: 'EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! ECCLESLAM NULLA SALUS...
...occurred during one of Freddie's lavish Prohibition-era parties. It was a Christmas dinner at Boston's staid Locke-Ober's. The company was high, the food and wines were perfect. Outside the snow fell. But there was one feature missing. Freddie hired a shivering newsboy to press his nose against the window and watch "as we attacked the groaning board...
Last week, the Vatican added one more exception to its confusing decree and took the heat off the newsboy. He may sell Communist papers, it ruled, if he "acts as the result of the active threat of the unions . .. However," the Vatican added, "he must always have the moral obligation to limit as much as possible his cooperation ... by using small ruses in which the news vendors are experts and which it is not necessary to list here...
Then I went to sleep. I awoke when a newsboy went through the ward calling out in a shrill voice, and later when supper came. I didn't eat anything, but I drank a lot of water. I slept on and off into the night, and I felt rotten. Finally, I slept soundly, and when I woke up in the morning I felt a little better, but I still had a sore throat and a headache...
...your name Murphy? Are you a descendant of Ann Radcliffe or Ebenexer W. Cook? Were any of your ancestors members of the classes of 1844 or 1902? Do you live within 15 miles of Fitchburg? Were you over a Boston newsboy...