Word: schoolboys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York City superstar Tony Price, a former schoolboy sensation at Taft, took control with his 20-ft. pop shots, en route to a 23-pt. night. The Quakers quickly ran off 12 unanswered points. As Penn got stronger, finding its shooting range, Harvard fell to pieces. The usually dependable Fine and Taylor lost their backcourt composure, committing 13 of Harvard's outrageous 30 turnovers...
Deep in middle age, Isaac has suddenly acquired the wisdom of a sage and the passions of a schoolboy. In his rag picker's guise he becomes smitten with Annie Powell, a beautiful hooker disfigured by a D-shaped scar carved in her cheek...
With his hero's accident, Green transforms the novel from a typical schoolboy memoir into a remarkably mature meditation on losses and gains. He slips easily into the minds and emotions of characters around Haye: the boy's stepmother, an old nanny, the sad, slightly vulgar daughter of an unfrocked clergyman. All, in varying ways, must struggle to cope with the presence of a person to whom the intolerable has happened. He too must struggle to grow into his tragedy...
PAUL CONNORS, sophomore halfback. A frosh star last year (5.3 yd. avg. for 507 yds.) and The Globe's "Schoolboy of the Year" two years back, this Hanover High grad may be just the thing Joe Restic needs to get his squad back on the winning track. At press time, his status as a starter was uncertain, but one thing is certain--this slashing-type runner will see lots of playing time this fall...
What manner of man was this new world celebrity? The week brought forth the first crop of Luciani stories: the schoolboy in the foothills of the Dolomite Alps playing hookey to catch birds, the farm boy doing chores barefoot to save shoe leather for his poor family, the young seminary professor devouring books during his two sojourns in a tuberculosis sanitorium...