Word: schoolboy
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...Roman Catholic schoolboy throughout the world can tell you that "ivory tower" (Turris eburnea), is one of the invocations of the Litany of the Blessed Virgin, and has been since the 16th Century...
...crucial years 1945-49. In a contemplative moment, Arthur Vandenberg once said that he was "the luckiest man alive." In some respects, he was. His father, a harnessmaker, went bankrupt in the panic of 1893. But nine-year-old Arthur went to work, prospered in a line of schoolboy enterprises, quit the University of Michigan after a year, and got himself a job on the Grand Rapids Herald. There he admired and studied the flamboyant oratorical style of Michigan Congressman William Alden Smith, who later bought the Herald. Vandenberg looked up one day from his typewriter to confront Alden Smith...
...Charles James Fox justified his schoolboy reputation. He grew up to be the greatest orator of his day, supported both the American and French Revolutions, urged abolition of the slave trade and self-government for Ireland. Sir Joshua Reynolds was experimenting with carmines when he painted him; they faded and left Fox jaundiced...
...three male roles--the successful lover, the defeated childhood sweetheart, and the ghost of Nathaniel Coombs--played by Robert Sterling, Robert Smith, and Richard Waring are also handled well. Waring, who did a magnificent portrayal of the schoolboy in "The Corn Is Green," has retained his Welsh accent, and after a weak first act start, he makes the ghost into a warm and believable figure...
...another. Or perhaps the clubby, family nature of the House has something to do with it: so many knew each other at Winchester or Eton, and again at Oxford or Cambridge. The other day, speaking on a corporal-punishment bill, a brigadier M.P. lightly recalled how he as a schoolboy had been wrongly caned by an honorable member a few feet from him. It was all very chummy...