Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth. With that pledge and sword, he won a secure place in the pantheon of American heroes. What the French think of him is a more complicated matter. As depicted by his most recent biographers, Maurice de la Fuye and Emile Babeau. the French hero of U.S. schoolboys was himself a schoolboy...
...This schoolboy's vision of scientifically organized socialist society, based essentially on an esthetic distaste for poverty and an aristocratic contempt for "shopkeepers." was made to order for a Harrovian Brahman, and it was one of the enduring marks which Nehru bore when he returned to India in 1912. "Do what I will," he admitted years later, "I cannot get out of the habits of mind and the standards and ways of judging other countries, as well as life generally, which I acquired in school and college in England...
...schoolmasters remembers Rex as "what we called a posh boy, always neat and well groomed. Pretty unusual in a schoolboy. But he was likable...
Recommended reading and an excellent traveling companion for those touring Europe: Years of Trial and Hope by Harry S. Truman. Preface-"Any schoolboy's afterthought is worth more than the forethought of the greatest statesmen...
Homework. In Hemet, Calif., a schoolboy dropped into a stationery store, browsed around, sheepishly asked the clerk: "Have you got any blank report cards...