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...Schoolboy Capone...
...Giving a replica of the Lindbergh Medal and a signed photograph of himself to young Hilary Lucke, schoolboy son of a Manhattan banker. The President's aides were pleased that Hilary, leaving the President's presence, exclaimed: "Dad, a fellow can even be a Democrat and like Mr. Hoover...
Harvard generally outplayed the schoolboy team, but was unable to capitalize its opportunities although the ball was in Worcester's territory for the greater part of the game Worcester, on the other hand, took advantage of the few favorable openings that it received, and was able to tally twice...
...schoolboy "Freddy" was incurably lazy, but too poor, too brilliant to loaf. Luxurious Oxford (which costs rich students $3,000 and more a year) beckoned. To Oxford, after seizing scholarship after scholarship by angry force of intellect, went poor Freddy. He stayed there nine years, squeezed dry every scholastic sinecure, was called to the Bar in 1899, and, as a young barrister of acknowledged, unparalleled brilliance, moved upon London...
...every schoolboy who has read the first three novels knows, Authoress Undset's scene is medieval (14th Century) Norway, her people medieval Norse Christians violent in action, grim of conscience. In this instalment old Hero Olav has withered into the sere & yellow, but he is still master in his own house, who can save himself much speech by an occasional frown. Unconfessed sins have darkened Olav's mind. His dead wife's bastard son. Eirick, is a living reminder of the murder of his wife's betrayer. Eirick, son avenger of the title, never learns the secret of his birth...