Word: truants
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...Truant...
Father Denis, head of the college, wrathful went to hunt the truant. He discovered him, dreaming over the dusty keyboard...
...Mabel Youmans, 180 pounds, thrust her formidable body and glowering countenance through the door of the Sandy Field, N. Y., (pop. 120), schoolhouse one day last week. How come, she demanded of Schoolteacher Mabel Dougherty, 120 pounds, that Mrs. Abe Conklin, wife of the Sandy Field truant officer, had dared to come nosing around her farm with Abe Conklin's tin badge, impersonating an officer in the house of Deputy Sheriff and Park Policeman Youmans, (who has two badges, one of them gold) and presuming to ask why his son, Howard Youmans, had been absent from school so often...
...high lights and shadows, corresponding to this last most picturesque of incidents. The daily press dispatches from the Riff should never bore anyone. The American soldiers of fortune with the French forces ignore the state departments' august disapproval and proceed to the day's fighting like bad boys playing truant. Unreasonable obstinacy displayed by the Riffians in refusing to be intimidated by the comic opera Spanish army precipitates a political crisis in Madrid. A French officer, perhaps a distant relative of General Nicholas Herkimer, directs his command from a stretcher for eleven days after being shot through both hips...
...Young Stribling, truant "Georgia schoolboy," flashed to a decision over Tommy Loughran, Philadelphia light-heavyweight. Two heavy nonentities padded out the program...