Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rover Boys" and "Lefty Locke...
Playwright Ginty's triumph of make-believe is that she has created, out of one part pious bluenose and one part murderous bandit, a lively, attractive, fun-loving Tom Rover. Nobody even bothers to wonder whether Thomas Howard might not be a sniveling hypocrite: at worst, he would seem to justify his forays as Falstaff justified his thefts: " 'Tis my vocation, Hal. 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.'' For almost three acts Jesse James labors with gusto. But History and the Wages of Sin have to win out, and Jesse...
...Star Scout after winning five merit badges, a Life Scout (ten merit badges) and an Eagle Scout (21 merit badges). At 15 he becomes a Senior Scout and new vistas open before him. He may become a Sea Scout (with blue uniform) or an Explorer, and at 17 a Rover...
...than most. His ancestors were early first citizens of Manhattan (whose etymology he gives as Man-a-hat-ta-nink, a place of general in-toxication), Virginia, South Carolina, Texas. His grandfather's unbranded cattle gave rise to the term '"maverick"-an unbranded yearling; hence independent, a rover. With this background it would not have been surprising if Maury Maverick had turned out a clan-conscious, reactionary Southerner. Clan-conscious he undoubtedly is, but he says he is as conscious of his forbears' failings as of their fame. cites an Irish murderer and an opponent of Patrick...
Ever since last June, when the truant British trawler Girl Pat, whose crew ran away with her on All Fools' Day, was finally nabbed at Georgetown, British Guiana (TIME, June 8, 22 & 29), England has been kept atwitter by a series of Rover-Boys-at-Sea personal accounts by the Girl Pat's doughty Skipper George Black ("Dod") Orsborne spreadeagled across the pink pages of London's sensational Sunday newspaper The People. Other excerpts...