Word: truant
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Seydou decided to get some service out of the ancient feudal officers at his father's court. The royal Master of Ceremonies was put in charge of street cleaning; the Keeper of the Weapons was made health commissioner; the general of the nonexistent army was made chief truant officer. With French government help, a new industry, coffee culture, was introduced, and-in direct answer to the newly literate demands of the Sultan's people-a postal service was begun. "With tradition as the father and modernization, brought by the French, as mother," said the Sultan, "we shall produce...
...Clean Dirt. Frank Santana, his two younger brothers and his widowed mother came from Puerto Rico; they lived on $158 monthly relief. Often truant from school, he was never truculent, simply baffled. His I.Q. score: a very low 69. He stayed four terms in the same class, but his teachers never considered him a disciplinary problem. A neighbor said that he was considerate: "The woman next door has a baby, and Frank would take the carriage in for her without being asked." He went three nights a week to a nearby Police Athletic League center, designed to keep boys...
...showing signs of spring fever. Most of the week's dramas ran in pairs like truant schoolboys. There were two broad farces, two plays about frustrated spinsters, two about boxers, two about lady spies, two about heartless fathers, and two about the general untrustworthiness...
...Fists & Free Love. As Rocky tells it, by the time he was old enough for school, he was on the lam from the truant officer. At twelve he knew his way around the pool halls and whorehouses of Manhattan's lower East Side. He had been hardened by a stretch in a Catholic protectory in The Bronx, where the brothers belted him with bamboo canes, and where he had to bust a few heads himself before he taught the other inmates who was boss of the yard. He had his own mob of hoodlums, snarling youngsters who hated...
After her crime, doctors had labeled her "a psychopathic personality with an episode of excitement." She was sent, without trial, to Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. There she worked in the laundry, and made a resolute effort to cure herself. A truant who never finished school, Lena studied and read avidly at Matteawan. In nine years her I.Q. rose from 66 to 127. This year she was found sane, but still faced trial. "Her entire personality is changed," said Matteawan's Director John F. McNeill, "as is her outlook on life...