Word: schoolboy
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...heart breaks when sometimes a little schoolboy approaches and asks: 'Is it true, Father, that before the war children in Poland died of hunger?' or 'Do children in England have to work in the mines?' The main weight of the fight against the lies and moral distortion has moved from the school to the home. This duty now falls on the overworked mothers...
...schoolboy and as a college freshman--he captained the latter team--Maras was moved to tackle on the varsity. In his junior year the Dukes beat Rose Bowl-bound Pitt, 7 to 0, and went on to trounce Mississippi State in the 1937 Orange Bowl. Maras was captain of the team the next season, and won the Samuel Weiss Award as outstanding scholar-athlete. After graduation in June, 1938, he signed with the professional Pittsburgh Steelers...
...trying to discover something the old Shoshone Indians have known for ages is discouraging enough in itself, but why don't these myopic researchers take a course in simple Latin and discover what the old Roman botanical titles of these herbs meant in the first place? Even a schoolboy can tell at a glance that Lithospermum officinale means "seed petrified in the laboratory" . . . Gromwell indeed...
...Best God Can Do. To hear him talk, each of those novels is an illustration of his cheerful philosophy-a belief whose statement has faint overtones of Jimmy Durante, faint undertones of the incorrigible schoolboy. The world, he says, "may not look so good, but it is the best God can do at the time, with conditions as they exist." He also likens the world to an old sow, which would lie down lazily in the muck and never move, if it were not for the gadflies-the rebels, artists and other eccentrics-that buzz and bite in her somnolent...
What the newsmen saw was the world's biggest and most expensive accumulation of junk. It threw a pitiless light on the character of the man who had lived here until a few weeks before. Farouk's tastes sometimes seemed curiously childish, like those of a schoolboy who has never grown up beyond the French postcard stage. Above all, the palace gave the impression that someone had feverishly and indiscriminately crammed possessions into the vast rooms, to ward off loneliness, or perhaps despair...