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...meeting in London to discuss home defense, Clement Davies, M. P. stormed: "Any schoolboy who can throw a cricket ball can throw a bomb. Women should have grenades with which to defend their homes and babies." - Correct: "Labor omnia vincit...
...European refugee children, the Foster Parents' Plan for War Children, Inc. has established ten children's colonies in France, housing1,-300. from the ages of 2 to 17. Many a U. S. citizen has become a "foster parent," sending money, writing letters. Wrote one U. S. schoolboy "parent": "Your luck has not been so good as mine, Pierre, but cheer up, your day will come. I am studying French in school and some day when the world is a better place, perhaps when you are a young man, we can meet and look back at the bad days...
...true that we are still allowed to reply to criticism. When we are accused of schoolboy skepticism, we can affirm our faith in democracy and freedom. We question the efficiency of a means, not the validity of those ends. We can still maintain that our disillusionment is only in war as an instrument of democracy...
Wonderful is British school boys' slang. Derived from Latin, classical literature and centuries of schoolboy gibberish, it is as much a trademark of public (British for private) schools as the old school tie. It is also a clue to the character of British public schoolboys. Last week Britons able to take their minds off death in Flanders could amuse themselves with an authoritative new dictionary of schoolboys' slang (Public School Slang, by Morris Marples -Constable...
Since World War 1, schoolboy slang has been enriched by army expressions (e.g., gadget, posh, to do the dirty, to scrounge, to -wangle') and by Americanisms (lay off, scram). Most of it, however, is still the schoolboys' own, often unintelligible to outsiders. A Bootham boy, for example, says: "Just had a juice-meeting with My Lord for tuzhering a bug." Translation: "I've just been reprimanded by the Headmaster for breaking an electric-light bulb." Some other outlandish schoolboy expressions: belly-go-round (a belt), Medes and Persians (the practice of jumping...