Word: schoolboy
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...Appalled by the thought of having to fight, a schoolboy in Los Angeles and a World War cavalry veteran in Waterbury, Conn., committed suicide...
...intelligent schoolboy knows that all this kind of thing makes all the people poorer than they need be and is sheer economic nonsense. One thing to do is to view with alarm, and this was ably done in Chicago last week by two potent Governors-Cochran of Nebraska and Stark of Missouri (see p. 21)-who discerned and decried a menace to "free America...
...China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek "observed a schoolboy behaving in an unbecoming manner in the street." Shortly thereafter the Generalissimo founded a New Life Movement to puritanize and clean up the Chinese, to fight superstition, ignorance and corruption, even to curb such Chinese habits as spitting in public. Chiang turned over the actual running of this movement, obviously Christian in its origin, to his Christian wife. Since then Mme Chiang has been advised, in the New Life Movement and in other matters, by a Congregational missionary, Rev. George W. Shepherd of Auburndale, Mass...
...widely discussed influence of the "rabbit" quality in American horsehide, or to the more mundane belief that managers have overworked their pitchers, the fact remains that an inordinate percentage of the country's pitching greats have grievous afflictions in their flippers. Carl Hubbell, Dizzy Dean, Bob Feller, Lefty Grove, Schoolboy Rowe, Van Lingle Mungo, and Wes Ferrel, these are only a few of the burdened. X-rays have been taken, yes, and chipped bones and bent bones and extraneous bones have been removed. But many of these men have little faith in science. Some back astrology, some herbs, and others...
...Thibaults, published in the U. S. in 1926, traced the lives of Antoine and his younger brother, Jacques, to the threshold of their careers. The present volume (which includes a new translation of the first two) carries them on, shows Jacques, emotional, unstable, imaginative, developing from a runaway schoolboy to writer, to revolutionist, while Antoine, sober, good-natured, plodding, grows in understanding as his professional skill increases. He falls in love with Rachel and finally, through the haze of the lies she tells him about herself, begins to understand her sulphurous, vicious, pathetic, vice-ridden past and future. Still...