Word: schoolboy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Guy Meli shining at bat and afield warriors added a fourteenth victim to their long string Saturday as they aked out a close win over a surprisingly persistent Exeter nine, 3 to 2, on the schoolboy diamond...
...Every schoolboy knows that Socrates was an influential Greek educator who was condemned to drink hemlock for "corrupting" Athens' youth. For 2,300 years Socrates has been pictured, on the strength of Plato's description of him, as a highborn philosopher who lived ascetically, spent his time asking searching questions of Athenians in the market place, showed up the Greek Sophists, avoided politics and was eventually martyred by an ignorant mob for teaching his pupils idealistic notions of justice and authority...
...haunted subsequent illustrators in oil. So did their love of historical romance. One of their stylistic descendants is Norman Rockwell (45), whose first Saturday Evening Post cover appeared in May 1916, and who has grown rich on the subsequent 185. A perpetually delighted, boyish man much like his own schoolboy characters, Norman Rockwell paints with unvarying lovability, blatant technical flair and particularly lusty highlights. He and Mead Schaeffer, his good friend and fellow romancer, turned up at last week's ball in costumes they were then engaged in painting...
...this attempt has proved quite successful. Likewise, Mr. Gregory Mason's account of the War has many more characteristics in common with the Gilbert and Sullivan type of opera than with an armed conflict. He has seconded Millis' motion on the subject by treating the 1898 embroilment as a schoolboy's scuffle. But, like many second-the-motions, "Remember the Maine" is at best only a weak reiteration of something that has been gone over before in more positive fashion...
...Appalled by the thought of having to fight, a schoolboy in Los Angeles and a World War cavalry veteran in Waterbury, Conn., committed suicide...