| 单词 | farm boy |
| 例句 | The farm boy had eyes like the sea before a storm, but who cared about eyes? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He was twenty years old and six-foot-four, a big strong farm boy. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Mixed in with all the college students and farm boys and out- of-work loggers, there were grizzled hard-rock miners from all over the West. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Bobby looked more like a farm boy from Kansas than a kid from the streets of Brooklyn. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Now the farm boy was staring back at the Countess. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z For a farm boy, he was not a very good gardener. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Thank you, but the farm boy does that.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He was a farm boy who carried squealing pigs around like they were already thin slices of bacon. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The farm boy did what she told him too. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Why in the world would the woman in all the history of Florin who was in all ways perfect be interested in the farm boy. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The farm boy did as he was told. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Like the farm boy who grew up to be a billionaire or the paperboy who now has a dozen satellites in space. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she called out: “You!” and pointed at the farm boy. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She closed her eyes and snuggled down and got all nice and comfortable, and people don’t look at other people the way the Countess looked at the farm boy because of their teeth. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Clearly, something about the farm boy interested her. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A few, like Joe, were farm boys or lumberjacks or fishermen, the products of foggy coastal villages, damp dairy farms, and smoky lumber towns all over the state. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Only thing was, I was a farm boy and ran to the city, and you’re a city boy running to the woods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ask the farm boy; he tends them,” Buttercup said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The girls in the village followed the farm boy around a lot, whenever he was making deliveries, but they were idiots, they followed anything. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The farm boy did have good teeth, give credit where credit was due. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z If they grew too damaging, the farm boy handled things, emerging silently from his hovel, thrashing a few of them, sending them flying. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And some big ones as well: Would the farm boys be able to keep up with the intellectual side of the sport? The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Actually, he was more a young man now, but he had been a farm boy when, orphaned, he had come to work for her father, and Buttercup referred to him that way still. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Milton Stanley Livingston was a burly farm boy who had been raised in the foothills of California’s San Gabriel Mountains, where his father owned an orange grove. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I’m telling her what every boy in Prentisstown knows, the history even the dumbest farm boy like yours truly knows by heart. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Other bones and fossilized footprints were found in the Connecticut River Valley of New England after a farm boy named Plinus Moody spied ancient tracks on a rock ledge at South Hadley, Massachusetts. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And it was Fiona herself, not looking up from what she was doing, who told us how the farm boy had come in earlier with the message. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The cop grabbed the farm boy by the shirt collar and marched him from the yard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z And he wasn’t that much taller than the Count either, although his stomach was flatter, but that was because the farm boy was younger. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “He shouldn’t have called me no farm boy. If he calls me a farm boy, I’m gonna call him a cootie again.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Any farm boy like myself, that packed up and went off to theatre school, is chasing the dream of working with a person like Alex,” he says. Nick Offerman: 'Trump is about to be presented with a gory butcher's bill' 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Lastly Olney, an Iowa farm boy whose self-taught passion for French food and wine led him to become a distinguished columnist and cookbook author. Why American gastronomy owes so much to France 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z In the wars, the victory garden was intended to prevent food shortages and free farm boys for fighting. Perspective | Down the garden path: A new show tracks America’s love affair with plants 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The novel, about a farm boy and his beloved horse enmeshed in the horrors of World War I, was made into an award-winning play using puppets in 2007. ArtsBeat: 'War Horse' Film Turns Book Into Bestseller in Britain 2012-01-27T16:51:03Z And though Superman will “put a global focus on his never ending battle,” the statement continued, “he remains, as always, committed to his adopted home and his roots as a Kansas farm boy from Smallville.” ArtsBeat: Superman Renounces U.S. Citizenship 2011-04-29T15:38:51Z Instead, he killed two farm boys and burned their bodies “so no one would know.” 'Game of Thrones' recap: Sail south, the wildlings learn, or else! 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z One conventional way for a novelist to recreate such an unlikely arc would be to make it soar — a young, insecure farm boy transformed into a city-building titan. This Novel Revisits a Power Broker Who Trod Lightly and Left a Big Footprint 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z PBS’ documentary series profiles the farm boy who grew up to become an innovator and major player in the American auto industry. Tuesday TV Picks: ‘Henry Ford: American Experience’ on KCTS 2013-01-28T20:33:42Z “He is still that Cleveland farm boy made good,” she said. Weddings: Four Decades Later, a Face From the Dorm 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Nick Stafford’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel, about a Devonshire farm boy and his prize horse, separated by events in Europe, captures the horrors of modern, mechanical warfare. ‘War Horse’ Closes in Britain, but Its Influence Gallops On 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z In staying mostly true to the story's origins, Jack is a poor farm boy whose uncle sends him on an errand to sell the family horse. Review: A lively, detailed `Giant Slayer' 2013-02-27T14:48:09Z Thad, the river swimmer of the title story, is a 17-year-old farm boy whose passion for plunging into deep currents sweeps him through a coming-of-age epic that would drown an ordinary life. ‘The River Swimmer’: youth and age, in the currents 2013-01-30T19:27:37Z The third was a Tennessee farm boy who fought bravely with the 2nd Infantry Division before deserting and becoming a criminal in post-liberation Paris. Books of The Times: ‘The Deserters,’ a World War II History by Charles Glass 2013-06-09T21:32:20Z During a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts one weekend, he saw a 1914 photograph of farm boys in Germany, and started thinking about the birth of the machine age. Richard Powers Speaks For the Trees 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Audie Murphy, a Texas farm boy who was the war’s most decorated GI, forged a star career in Westerns and in his own bio-pic, To Hell and Back. Act of Valor: Trained SEALs 2012-02-25T17:11:06Z James Duke was a self-made American, born a poor farm boy. Take a Virtual Tour of New York’s Museum District 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z A "farm boy" from Iowa, he earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano from the University of Iowa, and a performer's certificate in organ from the Eastman School of Music. It's good to be benched: Seattle Symphony organist is key part of upcoming program 2011-03-25T00:03:40Z It hardly came as a surprise: Sawyer Fredericks, the fetching folky farm boy from Fultonville, N.Y., was declared the Season 8 winner of “The Voice” in the final moments of Tuesday night’s finale. And the Season 8 winner of 'The Voice' is ... 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Finch, a colonial farm boy who trained in the Alps while studying in Zurich before taking up a teaching post at Imperial College, London, was an outsider. Onwards and upwards 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Bill Haskell, a Vermont farm boy, journeyed with a partner to the Yukon in the summer of 1896 and was there when gold was first discovered in the Klondike. 'Gold Diggers': Six lives drawn to glitter of Klondike gold rush 2010-10-14T20:46:00Z The title character is a pubescent towheaded farm boy with a Humpty Dumpty face who roams the area on his bicycle with a group of friends. ‘Li’l Quinquin,’ a New Mystery by Bruno Dumont 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Of course, that’s coming from a sex writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, not a farm boy from a microscopic town in Iowa. Nudity and “The Bachelor”: What a contestant’s Playboy past reveals about double standards and sex 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Naive farm boys who come to Stockholm fall into paralyzing debt, with dire consequences. Review | For Stieg Larsson fans, a new voice — and an even darker side of Sweden 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z And I did not want to be a big, dumb, square-headed farm boy. Q & A with Penn Jillette: Crackpot hippies, politics and why the best tricks are no secret 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z In his best-known story about Harvard, “The Christian Roommates,” David Kern, a character plainly modeled on himself, is described as “a farm boy driven by an unnatural sophistication.” Updike at Work: On Proust and Pennsylvania 2010-06-21T14:48:00Z For the farm boy, it’s as valuable a lesson as how to dam a river or how to fire a gun. Review | Two Australian boys seek revenge for their parents’ murder in this blood-soaked tale 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z But the former farm boy saw more potential above ground than below it. Henry T. Segerstrom, California Developer and Arts Patron, Dies at 91 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z “The robots lead the farm boy to an elderly shut-in, who tells them they must defeat a handicapped man who needs a full-body respirator to stay alive.” Watch Stephen Colbert Explain the Plot of Star Wars to Newbies 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Mr. McGillin, who was born in Los Angeles, was never a farm boy. Music Review: Howard McGillin Sings at the Oak Room - Review 2011-09-16T22:54:23Z Fitzgerald's hero, the poor farm boy named Jimmy Gatz who reinvents himself as Jay Gatsby, who "sprang from a Platonic conception of himself", epitomises the self-made man. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z Indeed, five years in Paris will class up just about any old Southern farm boy. Even Thomas Jefferson's most lavish White House banquets had the common touch 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Apparently the cruel streets of New York City were no match for the cunning farm boy from Clovis. Chris Colfer: The First Time I Braved New York (and a Taxi!) 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z He arrived in town as a fresh-faced farm boy from Ohio and found himself at the center of the free world, when Georgetown was an intoxicating highball of society, politics and intrigue. Five decades after arriving in Georgetown, Gordon Riggle is still shaping its gardens 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The home recording by two farm boys from Fruitland, Wash., didn’t race up the charts. At Home With Donnie and Joe Emerson: Touring the Farm Where the Emerson Brothers Recorded Their 1979 Album 2012-09-12T22:45:21Z “I wasn’t into the drug scene,” she said, “and he was a farm boy.” Among New York’s sidewalk sideshows, 2 goats and a story of despair 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z The horses in War Horse, a play about the bond between a horse and a farm boy separated in World War One, are spellbindingly convincing. Edinburgh Fringe: The Life and Times of Michael K, a South African puppet play 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z But the Tennessee farm boy is now living in a lakeside home on a 50-acre farm in northwest Montana after spending much of his life and career in Columbus, Ohio. Family of famed zookeeper Jack Hanna says he doesn't know he has Alzheimer's 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z As a young man in the 1980s, Jay, a farm boy with a golden tan and muscles chiseled from hay baling and house building, went to Washington to visit a friend. A round barn rises in rural America. There is grief and hope in its rafters 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Carter was a farm boy at heart, but showed in the Illinois primary he could also deal with machine bosses — namely Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. COLUMN: Jimmy Carter was good fit for post-Watergate America 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Powell included Cox’s passage about the Idaho farm boys and the success that most applicants to Harvard could achieve. Why Is Affirmative Action in Peril? One Man’s Decision. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The Catholic farm boy came into the world during an Oklahoma dust storm. $50M shrine to honor slain priest, first US Catholic martyr 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Or when Paul and his comrades eat a stolen goose as if they are farm boys, laughing and having a warm meal. Even when all is quiet, sound brings forth the emotions of World War I 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Asked if her family worries for her, Allen said her husband, “an Idaho farm boy,” recently got a concealed weapons permit. In red California, election deniers rant about fraud and promise they won't go away 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Today an animation legend in his own hard-fought right, Bluth, 84, recalls riding his horse into town to watch movies at the local cinema as a farm boy in Payson, Utah. Don Bluth made animation history by leaving Disney. Looking back, he has no regrets 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Mark Adams describes himself as an old West Texas farm boy who grew up on the cotton field and dreamed of being Texas Tech’s head basketball coach. Decades-long dream comes true for Mark Adams at Texas Tech 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z One man who witnessed both was 19-year-old Texas farm boy Jack Holder. Pearl Harbor survivor recounts harrowing attack, 80 years later: 'Something I'll never forget' 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z He befriends his guards, generally farm boys enticed by the opportunities of military service. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei on his memoir, his persecution and 'why autocracy fears art' 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Humble, kind, authentic and passionately committed to social justice, the farm boy born near Troy, Ala., in 1940, who preached to chickens as a child, came a long way from his modest beginnings. Review | John Lewis’s final meditations on activism, spirituality, politics and love 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Walt Disney, the one-time Missouri farm boy who for more than a quarter of a century created fantasies that made a troubled world laugh, died Thursday. Classic movies in SoCal: ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ ‘The Outsiders,’ Beyond Fest and more 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Growing up, he delivered the local Charlotte Observer newspaper to neighbors including the family of Billy Graham, the lanky farm boy who later would grow up to be the 20th century’s most famous Christian evangelist. John Shelby Spong, liberal Episcopal bishop, dies at age 90 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z In between the column sits a young Eisenhower, commemorating the humble beginnings of a farm boy from Kansas. Washington's newest memorial sees its first Fourth of July 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z It will be the perfect place for the self-described farm boy to retire. Shot into canyon costs Louis Oosthuizen at US Open 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z “I’m a farm boy at heart, me and the missus, and we can’t wait,” he said. Oosthuizen retirement plans start with a ranch in Florida 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z An upstate New York farm boy grows up the hard way after going to Canada to play semipro hockey. Movies on TV this week: 'Gandhi'; 'Forrest Gump' and more 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z An Iowa farm boy flies to Los Angeles to see his brother and somehow picks up a duffel bag of heroin. Movies on TV this week: "Pulp Fiction"; "My Fair Lady" and more 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z She was another loner and outcast, and also a woman apparently driven to her maddeningly repetitive chorus by a “farm boy from Tennessee” who “taught it all to Ruby, then just let her be.” I was 7, gay and an outcast. Helen Reddy's songs were a lifeline 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z A Kansas farm boy transforms his homegrown shooting skills into those necessary to be an aerial gunner in the tail turret of an American bomber. Movies on TV this week: 'Stand by Me' on Showtime and more 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z A farm boy roams Texas with a legendary bandit who’s being hunted over a family feud. Movies on TV this week: 'Dances with Wolves' on Encore 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z Winning gold was the start of a ride that began with the farm boy from Wyoming becoming an instant celebrity. Film tracks Rulon Gardner’s highs, lows in years since gold 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z “I was a farmhand. I milked the cows and fed the chickens and fed the hogs and tilled the soil. I did all that good stuff that farm boys do without a tractor,” he recalled. North Carolina man works to uncover the past 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z New Perry, in the lean and hungry-looking person of Matthew Rhys, is a former farm boy, living with a skinny cow on what remains of his parents’ spread. HBO gives 'Perry Mason' a superhero's origin story. He didn't need one 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z And here was Truman, a Missouri farm boy, schooled mainly by the stacks of a small-town library. Opinion | Harry Truman saved the world. Who will save us now? 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z The “farm boy from California,” 77, and the pageant queen, 52, have been married since 1992. Lee Greenwood reflects on ‘God Bless the U.S.A.’ success, lasting marriage of 27 years 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z A farm boy from Michigan, he graduated from West Point and became a jet pilot and flight instructor, training some of the men who would later join him as astronauts. Alfred Worden, who orbited the moon and walked in deep space, dies at 88 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z A farm boy became a fearsome warrior at Iwo Jima. A Marine captured the famous Iwo Jima flag-raising on film. The original hasn’t been seen in 75 years. 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z A onetime farm boy, he began singing when he was about 12, initially annoying his mother. Joseph Shabalala, founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, dies at 78 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z He has described himself as a “farm boy from Kansas”, the article noted, but actually grew up on a suburban cul-de-sac. Can Trump's social media Rasputin cast his spell over voters again? 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The discovery of a dragon’s egg puts a poor farm boy on the path to his destiny to be a Dragon Rider and defeat an evil king. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Baby-faced, with neatly trimmed blond hair, he speaks with the measured, matter-of-fact manner of the upstate New York farm boy that he is. To replace controversial plastic additive BPA, a chemical company teams up with unlikely allies 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z “I am an old-fashioned farm boy and the day-and-age of men marrying men.” Pete Buttigieg seizes advantage as impeachment trial traps rivals in Washington 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The film tells the fixer’s story from the days before he was a matchmaker — starting from his farm boy years to being a World War II Marine. Scotty Bowers, the golden age of Hollywood's sexual matchmaker, dies 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Per tells Jakobe a fable that he heard as a child, about a farm boy who wants to become a great shot, a “magic marksman.” A Neglected Modern Masterpiece and Its Perverse Hero 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z A one-handed salesman, an Amish farm boy and a pretty con artist pull bowling scams to get to a $1 million tournament in Reno. TV Listings: Here are the feature and TV Films airing the week of July 21 - 27, 2019 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Science fiction, fantasy is a youth-loving tradition, the bildungsroman, the origin story of the young farm boy or farm girl who’s finding their way. Author Myke Cole talks writing hard science fiction in his space-set Coast Guard novel Sixteenth Watch 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z But still, the playing of communal music in the book – between farm boy Lonnie and the urban Drew – is a rare moment of peaceful connection between the two warring cultures. Plucked from obscurity: why bluegrass is making a comeback 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z “Dad was a patriot. He was a farm boy who went into the Navy to fight for his country,” Joe Duckworth said. Magazine letters lead to meeting of WWII sailors’ relatives 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z “I’m a redneck farm boy,” Duer said the day of the performance. Small, Eastern Shore town uses Shakespeare, spunk to rebuild 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Perhaps he meant that whites are more likely to be “farm boys” or “great ambassadors,” like his South Dakotan roommate. At Trial, Harvard’s Asian Problem and a Preference for White Students from “Sparse Country” 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z But now Hall was wondering “if this Indiana farm boy had gotten in a little over his head.” Mel Hall hopes data-driven career will take him to Congress 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z “My wife and I met in La Crosse and she said ‘who would’ve thought I would meet an Iowa farm boy, to be where we are today and be here to help Nicole?’” Wisconsin woman gets kidney transplant 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z “I’m a farm boy and I worked here while I was going to college 20 years ago. I made the observation that where there were cows adjacent to us … there was no phrag,” Hansen said. Cows help battle invasive grass at Great Salt Lake wetlands 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The farm boy was enjoying Shakespeare after all. Small, Eastern Shore town uses Shakespeare, spunk to rebuild 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z She had married a farm boy but had no interest in plaid shirts. Country pride: what I learned growing up in rural America 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Truman’s evolution — from a farm boy raised by Confederate sympathizers to U.S. president, who on July 26, 1948, signed the order to desegregate the armed forces — can be mapped through his letters and memoirs. How Harry S. Truman went from being a racist to desegregating the military 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z It was a bipartisan project guided by a Missouri farm boy, Harry S. Truman. Opinion | Trump is reviving the policies that once darkened the world 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z “There’s only about 85 kids in the whole high school; it’s really small, some farm boys,” Moore said. Former M.L.B. Phenom Mike Moore Defies the Odds of First Overall Picks 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Establishing the medical equivalent of a farm system, he encouraged ambitious young students — many of them “West Texas farm boys,” Dr. Seldin observed — to enter the academy. Donald W. Seldin, who built UT Southwestern into a medical powerhouse, dies at 97 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z A Midwest farm boy named David Fairchild dreamed of bountiful fields and tables, and he ultimately visited more than 50 countries to bring tens of thousands of new plant varieties to America. Review: 19th-century plant pioneer changed how America eats 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z “Never afraid to help his teammates. Always there for them. Good, typical Saskatchewan farm boy. Always load the bus, unload the bus, never afraid to roll up his sleeves and get work done.” Hockey bus crash victims include respected coach, captain 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z “My father was a very humble person. He never saw himself as a celebrity. He always saw himself as a farm boy from Mecklenburg County,” the Rev. Franklin Graham said Thursday on the “Today” show. Billy Graham and North Carolina: The affection was mutual 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The North Carolina-born farm boy reached hundreds of millions of listeners around with the world with his rallies — or what he called “crusades” — and his pioneering use of television. Billy Graham will lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z He once told an interviewer that when he gets to heaven he would ask God, “Why me? Why would such a ministry fall on a North Carolina farm boy?” EDITORIAL: Billy Graham was rightly called the towering figure of Christian evangelism 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z All in all, the trio of almost unknown American farm boys doubled the three main staple grains’ efficiency of production, making possible enough basic food for most of humankind decades after they lived. Opinion | Three American farm boys who would change the world 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z “A lot of these guys were just shy farm boys,” Quinones said. Trump sees ‘carnage’ from America’s drug boom. But major cities are getting safer. 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z “I remember when he was offered this part in ‘Star Wars,’ it just sounded odd, a farm boy on another planet,” said Cooper. Klamath woman takes pride in nephew Mark Hamill’s career 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z “Oh man, what a list. What’s this farm boy doing on that list?” Dick Enberg, known for ‘Oh my!’ catchphrase, dies at 82 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z As for “Father Al,” Sloan said, “I suspect he wouldn’t want any of this attention. . . . He was a common guy . . . an eastern Iowa farm boy.” Seventy-six years after he died at Pearl Harbor, a chaplain will get a combat medal 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Fox, a self-described farm boy from Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, grew up entranced by tales of forebears who shed blood for the Confederacy to fight what they called “Yankee aggression.” Wesley Fox, Marine who received Medal of Honor for Vietnam campaign, dies at 86 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z A childhood memory of gathering flowers as a farm boy in Lithuania as well as his observations of flowers in New York were points of reference. Some Things T Editors Like Right Now 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Stucker could join all those other farm boys who have fought in our wars. After 103 years in storage, Civil War vet’s remains laid to rest 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z There’s not a more diverse locker room environment in American professional sports than that of the NFL, with corn-fed farm boys mixing with inner-city toughs as teammates, if not soul mates. Perspective | What’s next in the Trump-NFL feud? Newly empowered players will provide answer. 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z At the sound of everyone's favorite escaped Pennsylvania farm boy turned creative director genius, people went nuts. The Internet Loved That Dick Whitman Shout Out Most of All 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z But if you look at it another way, it’s the story of how Luke went from becoming a farm boy to a Jedi and then the story ends. Mark Hamill on Luke Skywalker’s return, losing Carrie Fisher 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z “We want to train the individuals who will actually be working in the garden,” says Hudkins, a county agent with AgriLife who calls himself a farm boy from Indiana. Farm on grounds of State Fair of Texas helps feed homeless 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Until he was 15, he was raised as a farm boy on his father’s Louisiana plantation, where Charles Sr. grew cotton and soy beans and raised race horses. C. Jackson Grayson, 93, Nixon’s Anti-Inflation Overseer, Dies 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The unit of 100 girls, some as young as 14, entertained the teenage farm boy pilots at the air base in Chiran, Japan, with songs and stories. Review: Flowers and fetishes in new play ‘Nadeshiko’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z He’s a showy New Yorker, where Truman was a low-key Missouri farm boy. Opinion | Trump needs a dose of ‘manly virtues’ 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Luke changed, I think, more than the other characters in the original trilogy, from callow farm boy to a Jedi in training to finally a Jedi master. Mark Hamill on Luke Skywalker’s return, losing Carrie Fisher 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z He’s not one of those wide-eyed Salvadorean farm boys with no concept of the desert’s hardships, the sort who enters the desert wearing flip-flops and carrying a few cans of Coke. Life and death on the Mexican border 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The farm boy from rural Kansas, then 19, was never seen or heard from again. A soldier who starved to death in a North Korean prison camp is coming home — 65 years later 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z That remarkable record owes much to Madison Bumgarner, the North Carolina farm boy with a fabulous postseason record and that rocking chair pitching motion. Cubs Lose, but It’s Too Early for Ghosts to Rise 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z He swooned for George Romney, I’m convinced, because as a farm boy who had used mules for transport and labor, he adored cars and anyone associated with their manufacture. My Dad Set the Precedent Donald Trump is Flouting 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z And he had one hour to practice every day “because my players were all farm boys with chores. They had to catch the bus home.” Teacher-coach retires after 59 years 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z “The home needed extensive repair and more room, which took forever to build. Even after the building phase was completed I was saturated with the labor of becoming a self-described farm boy.” Farm life gave way to service for country 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z One can only hope that one day the hardworking farm boy from Rosetta Stone dazzles the Italian supermodel with his command of the congiuntivo trapassato. Love in Translation 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z He wondered what other country could give a farm boy such a life, and concluded America’s best days are ahead. America in one word? 'Free,' 'great,' or 'divided,' 'broken' 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Over the course of three films, he transforms from a backwater farm boy with big dreams to a confident Jedi master who still has his weaknesses, but doesn't let them control him. Star Trek Beyond makes the 2009 Star Trek a much better film 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z A former farm boy, Mr. Hershey made chores a part of daily life for his orphans. Back-Stabbing and Threats of a ‘Suicide Parachute’ at Hershey 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z Cows and horses could kick the incautious farm boy’s teeth out, the pigs still had some of their wild boar sensibilities about them, and the geese just hissed in a really scary way. The chicken is the most underrated member of the animal kingdom 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z Let me tell you a story about an Arkansas farm boy. Read Tom Cotton's Speech at the Republican Convention 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z North Dakota farm boy and UPS pilot Bill Gross started Farm Rescue 10 years ago, to help North Dakota farmers in need with help planting crops. Farm Rescue adds more services, eyes geographical expansion 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Payton delivered thousands of babies in farmhouses, saved nearly severed limbs after tractor accidents and set countless broken bones of devilish farm boys. Country doctor embodies Greatest Generation 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z And Prohibition banned an Irish and Italian vice corrupting farm boys moving to the city. Baby boomers have a Donald Trump problem: Immigration, nativism and the mythic golden age of the middle class 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z “It’ll be interesting to see if this Iowa farm boy can dig his heels in and say ‘no,’ ” Mr. Bailey said. Iowans Urge Senator Charles Grassley to Hold Hearings on Court Nominee 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z With blue eyes and a cheshire cat grin, the North Carolina farm boy has conjured name recognition not seen in bull riding since Lane Frost. As bull riding gets big, athletes fight through the pain for big payouts 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z But to the rest of the Rebellion, he's no Jedi — they're all dead, remember? — just a farm boy that got lucky with his proton torpedo. A complete guide to the new Star Wars canon before The Force Awakens 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Halverson was young farm boy from Utah when his desire and passion to fly was first inspired. The Candy Bomber returns to Miami where it all started 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Gene Amdahl, a South Dakota farm boy who became a trailblazer in mainframe computers, died in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 92. Your Friday Briefing: ‘Jihadi John,’ University of Missouri, Justin Bieber 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z All those farm boys from the Midwest and west. Jacob DeGrom, Once an Afterthought, Bests an Opposing Ace 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Surviving members of his family were appalled at a design that would have depicted the soldier-statesman as a barefoot farm boy. A War Memorial Design Competition for Monumental Egos 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z The news people, and the president even, had acted like the man was some sort of farm boy for saying such things. A Katrina survivor's tale: 'They forgot us and that's when things started to get bad' 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z But none of those dignitaries was as important to the restaurant’s future as a young Iowa farm boy who happened into the dining room in the early 1980s. Oklahoma City restaurant closes, reopens with new name 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z As a farm boy in Lithuania, Mr. Mekas knew what home was. What Home Means to New York’s Oldest Old 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Halvorsen, a Salt Lake City native, grew up as a farm boy in Utah and Idaho before earning his private pilot’s license in 1941. ‘Candy Bomber’ drops sweets from Utah’s air for July 4 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z And just as it was for Caesar, Jon receives his final blow from one of the people he trusted most: Olly, the farm boy who watched the Wildlings slaughter his parents. 7 Times Game of Thrones Drew on History This Season 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z A Canadian farm boy from a provincial border town in Saskatchewan, Holtby played forward before turning into a goaltender full-time as a teenager, something he would later credit for helping improve his strong puck-handling skills. In Braden Holtby, Capitals Have a Goalie Who Sees Himself Succeeding 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The self-starter went on to make these two Ohio farm boys, Deeds and Kettering, a lot of money. The spiritual home of US innovation 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Sandell, 63, a cabinetmaker from South Haven, described himself as a farm boy who got into snowkiting by way of sailboats and catamarans. Wind carries kiteboarding enthusiasts across snow, ice 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z But some constituents are baffled about what just happened when the nice young farm boy from Peoria went off to Washington. As Controversies Mounted, Rep. Aaron Schock Confessed to a Tough Week 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z If McConaughey’s character is an archetype — the farm boy turned astronaut — his folksy demeanor keeps the movie grounded. The Verge 50 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z He is a scrawny farm boy, no more than 20, with the kind of open face that should have a smile on it. The Kid With the Kalashnikov Isn't Happy: Ukraine's Revolution One Year On By contrast, Twain, at age sixty-five, loathed the chest-beating of war—especially the jingoistic, romanticized accounts of farm boys ground up and left for dead on the battlefield. When Mark Twain roasted Winston Churchill: Two master wits on the same stage 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z “It was very small by any standard,” Patterson told Herper, “except for if you were the farm boy from Oklahoma, it looked like a lot of money.” Clifford Illig Becomes Second Cerner Billionaire as Health Care Company's Stock Reaches All-Time High 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Route to Riches: Dyslexic farm boy tinkers with soybeans. Meet The Newest Members Of The 2014 Forbes 400 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z And they might chuckle a little if you called them visionaries, like most Iowa farm boys would. Cousins bring species to Iowa indoor fish farm 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z But today, having worked his way from being a poor farm boy in the mountains to Norway’s wealthiest resident, he is not so sure independence was such a good idea. The Saturday Profile: In Left-Leaning Norway, It’s Wealthy ‘Fox’ Gleefully Swings to the Right 2014-02-08T00:32:36Z Maybe it is not as much a generational thing as a reactionary curmudgeon thing. jouris Aug 8th 2013 21:57 GMT Yeah, but you and I were farm boys. Technology and our standard of living: Are we really better off than the numbers show? 2013-08-08T11:09:06Z And this farm boy turned food magnate in a business rife with cut-throat competition was the one chosen as the 2013 World Entrepreneur of the Year. The world's best entrepreneurs? 2013-06-11T23:20:58Z I grew up in rural Vermont, and my wife often describes me as an optimistic farm boy. Why I Say No 2013-04-24T13:04:35Z The farm boy doesn’t become the king, ever, and it’s just silly to try to sell that to an older audience. 'Jack The Giant Slayer' Review: A Monstrous, Gargantuan, Epic Letdown 2013-03-09T04:14:42Z The reply from Pollock, a former farm boy, offered a glimpse of the boyish machismo inside the tragic hero of Action Art, as Abstract Expressionism was sometimes called. Jeffrey Potter, Biographer of Jackson Pollock, Dies at 94 2012-12-30T03:09:24Z He morphed from farm boy into and managed to survive due in part to an immunity to . Tax Man Chases Dread Pirate Roberts (like a Rodent of Unusual Size) 2012-12-26T04:03:35Z The South had lots of bellicose farm boys skilled with guns. Guns have never saved us 2012-12-17T13:05:00Z Himself, a farm boy, he was haunted by the imaged of a farm family sitting down to lunch and his bomber raining death from the sky on them. George McGovern Passes On - Where Were You In 1972 ? 2012-10-21T21:00:31Z I’ve come a long way since being a farm boy, so I don’t mind my pets sleeping in the house, but with my allergies they don’t sleep in my bed. Heating Up a New Category: Refrigerated Pet Food 2012-08-10T01:36:12Z One of the strongest guys I ever met was this little farm boy. London 2012: After Baby, a Gold? 2012-08-08T12:32:20Z "How can a farm boy from Dorset prepare for that," Wilson said of the thousands of supporters cheering him on. Shooting: Brit farmer harvests double trap gold 2012-08-02T17:18:22Z "Inheritance," the fourth and final book in his series about farm boy Eragon and his beloved dragon, Saphira, will be published on Tuesday. Interview with Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon books 2011-11-04T15:32:39Z Let the minister and the other leaders take a firm stand for a square deal for the farm boys and girls in respect to work and play and sociability. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z Nineteen years old, a farm boy, he was undoubtedly accustomed to going to bed at dusk. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Turning into a lane, they came suddenly face to face with a farm boy of about sixteen years. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z A Middle Western farm boy, an Irishman with red hair or a German-American would seem to fit the circumstances best, but it's all a matter of choice. The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z Basically, Murray said, he’d agree to anything, a quality that Jack Adams of the Red Wings exploited by offering Howe low contracts year after year, certain that the Saskatchewan farm boy would simply agree. Slap Shot: At 84, a Busy Howe Raises Funds for Alzheimer's Research 2012-02-04T17:56:23Z Some farm boys are destined by nature for mechanical pursuits, others for social or clerical work, others for captains of industry, and so on. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z As a farm boy in Wyoming, the youngest of nine children, he was teased for being overweight. Wrestler Rulon Gardner Plots Comeback at London Olympics 2012-01-28T17:58:04Z Other words spoken in that same voice, came back to the girl's thoughts, and she looked with a puzzled frown at Jem, the farm boy, who stood at the pony's head. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z What matters now is not where the farm boy from Junction City went to school, but what he learned along the way. How UW's Justin Wilcox grew from small-town kid to big-time coach 2012-01-08T04:10:23Z It is Rollo who throws the acorn that hits the stout farm boy driving a milk cart beneath them, as they perch in a tree. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z The carefully kept records of farm boys show that they take up many different lines of work with great enthusiasm, and yet soon tire of them and drop them. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z The soft-spoken farm boy from central Kentucky says he is no hero. Ky. Marine to get Medal of Honor from President Obama for valor in 2009 Afghanistan battle 2011-09-14T17:00:58Z This is the stuff that Perry, a young West Texas farm boy with a cheery smile and a penchant for mischief, absorbed as he arrived in Aggieland in 1968. The Deep Aggie Roots Of Would-Be President Rick Perry 2011-08-19T09:45:00Z "He was a little farm boy and his career was so exciting and so special and I think the Austrian people are really proud," Helga Forstner, the museum co-ordinator told me. Arnie museum opens in his Austrian childhood home 2011-07-30T12:22:56Z The people like him because he was a little farm boy and his career was so exciting. Arnie museum opens in his Austrian childhood home 2011-07-30T08:51:23Z All this and more might be urged as means of guiding the thoughts of the farm boy towards the possibilities of his taking up the calling of his father. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z Yet the voiceless creature sometimes makes known his presence by sound, and frightens the belated farm boy, whom he curiously follows with a mysterious, hollow beating of his feet upon the ground. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z He is a former farm boy who calls colleagues “chaps.” The Anti-Immigration Crusader 2011-04-17T04:10:22Z From the dust and drudgery of their farms the farm boys dreamed and dreamed of the power and splendor of the pageantry. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z “I was sure you could not mean a karroo farm boy.” Outa Karel's Stories South African Folk-Lore Tales 2011-03-14T03:01:04.340Z Just how can these half-holidays, outings, and the like, be worked into the farm boy’s program so as to make them contributive to the up-building of his character? Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z He wasn’t ashamed to be called a "farm boy." A Fast-Growing Lawncare Company 2011-02-28T17:05:00Z The Iowa farm boy made it to the majors with the Cleveland Indians at just 17 and eventually to the Hall of Fame. Steinbrenner, Wooden among year's losses in sports 2010-12-21T23:46:05Z VAN METER, Iowa - In his tiny hometown, Bob Feller was the farm boy who never forgot his roots. Feller remembered as patriotic, larger than life 2010-12-16T22:53:58Z In his tiny hometown, he was the farm boy who never forgot his roots. Feller remembered as patriotic, larger than life 2010-12-16T19:43:15Z Hence, the need of carefully considering the matter of the outings for the farm boy and girl. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z Bross, a onetime Missouri farm boy who pushed the Huawei deal over the opposition of British intelligence, has thrown himself into devising a system to calm nerves in Washington and beyond. History of telecom company illustrates lack of strategic trust between U.S., China 2010-10-08T03:33:00Z Then I flashed back to the rope that hung from that very ceiling, the one the farm boys climbed like Tarzan. Tuttle: Memories of the Old School 2010-09-16T20:30:00Z A fresh-faced farm boy brings his prize steer "Doc" to the Iowa State Fair, and wins the 4-H Grand Champion blue ribbon. Attack of the cloned 4-H blue ribbon winners 2010-09-14T23:34:00Z Mr. Chenoweth, 89, vividly remembers how the grasslands here in Baca County were broken up for wheat beginning in the 1920s when he was a farm boy. U.S. Farmers Wary of Benefiting From Russia?s Woes 2010-08-19T18:16:00Z It is a matter for parental concern if the farm boy be not able to return to his labors at the beginning of each new day with freshness of spirits and overflowing energy. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z For the farm boy from South Africa, unwinding at night was a way to fight off the mounting pressure of trying to win golf's oldest trophy, the claret jug. Toast Of The Town 2010-07-20T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman—farm boy, school teacher, printer, editor, traveller, mechanic, nurse in the army hospital, Government clerk. The Vagabond in Literature "Mutually they both decided to make things go and they did go," wrote one 1930s farm boy of his parents. Frying Pan Farm Cuddled about her are the children, and they, the little farm boys and girls, have now a book that has been written just about them alone—their psychology and their needs. The American Country Girl In a later discussion there will be shown many methods whereby the recreation experience of the farm boys and girls may be properly looked after. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z Many a farm boy has thus had the courage crushed out of him in early teens and has ignominiously retreated to the city. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity While men in many professions were multiplying their individual power by spending youth in school, the farm boy would be simply trained at the plow, without the enlargement of practice in thinking required elsewhere. Rural Health and Welfare Whereas a neighborhood school would often allow a farm boy or girl to be excused from classes during peak work periods of harvesting or butchering, the new consolidated schools were less flexible. Frying Pan Farm David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University and the leading authority on fishes in the United States, was a farm boy from Gainsville, New York, when he joined the first class that entered Cornell University. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 Books for children.—In selecting a list of books for farm boys and girls, we should make little or no distinction between them and the children of the city homes. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z This book pleads merely for a fair share of the farm boys and girls to stay in the country,—those best fitted to maintain country life and rural institutions. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity Perhaps the farm boy will skin it for you. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes But it came to him that this was an eerie bat-fashion way for an Oregon farm boy to stand. Industrial Revolution Ten schools operating as consolidated schools graduated as many farm boys and girls as did nearly eighty one-room schools, during the past year. A Stake in the Land Then, in order that there may be maintained most friendly relations between the farm boy and the farm life, see to it that he has an occasional outing. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z This is the way one farm boy succeeded in harnessing the fierce prairie winds and compelling them to do his drudgery. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity But there was no little farm boy or old aunty Norade at the head. Letters from my Windmill As a farm boy I did not know them at all, but the barn swallows the summer always brought. Under the Maples Jeffrey Whiting was doing what the typical American farm boy has been doing for the last hundred years and what he will probably continue to do as long as we Americans are what we are. The Shepherd of the North A brief survey of the neighborhood will doubtless show the lack of general method in dealing with the farm boys’ and girls’ holidays and vacations during the long summer months. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z But in surrendering to the city countless farm boys of character and promise who have since become the city’s leaders, many a rural village has suffered irreparably. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity Do you wonder that I avoided telling the Japanese educational officer just how our provision for farm boys and girls compared with Japan's? Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions The wood frog is known only to woodsmen and farm boys. Under the Maples He is not always a dreamer, your farm boy, when he starts down from his hills or his cross-roads farm to see the big world and conquer it. The Shepherd of the North In connection with your efforts in behalf of the holiday or weekly picnic, take up carefully the matter of the proper amount of work for the farm boys and girls of any given age. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z If country life is to develop a permanently satisfying opportunity for the farm boys and girls, these conditions must be met. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity The farm boys, stable lads and men were shouting with laughter at the chauffeur's fury. A Nest of Spies I've trusted him to drive team for me since he was eleven, and you can't say more than that for a farm boy. Year of the Big Thaw The axe was in that gentleman's hand, and its edge carefully laid to the whirling stone, which one of the farm boys was turning. The Wide, Wide World And all owing to the outrageous conduct of a girl who had thrown her son aside for a farm boy, merely for the glamour of a medal won on the battlefield! In Orchard Glen A rainy day is often a farm boy's only holiday. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine The whole department is prepared to teach boys, particularly farm boys, some of the things which they will most need in the mechanical work on the farms. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) It often happens, in old sets, that a great piece of another tapestry has been roughly set in, like the knee-patches of a farm boy. The Tapestry Book The farm boy hears thy tender voice, And visions come of crystal days, With sugar-camps in maple ways, And scenes that make his heart rejoice. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs The two girls were deep in conversation with a farm boy. The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail A farm boy who had yearned to study engineering and who had been helped unexpectedly by a secret fund, revealed the name of the fund's donor. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play One farm boy lost not only all his money but his fine team and wagon as well. Land of the Burnt Thigh Francis Alexander, for instance, born in Connecticut in 1800, a farm boy and afterwards a school teacher, never attempted painting until he was over twenty. American Men of Mind Rodent damage and squirrel theft seem less troublesome there owing, perhaps, to protective measures and to the well developed hunting instinct among southern farm boys. Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 The tests can seem extremely difficult to a farm boy from Kansas. —And Devious the Line of Duty Southern mountaineers, Western ranch hands and farm boys from the Middle States came along to find mates among Syrians, Jews, Italians, Armenians and Greeks. From Place to Place School teachers and farm boys, clerks and stenographers, bookkeepers and mechanics, business men and lawyers. Land of the Burnt Thigh And the farm boy, who understood skunks, never forced his attentions. Followers of the Trail The farm boy whose studies lack all point of contact with his life and work will soon either lose interest in the curriculum or turn his back upon the farm. New Ideals in Rural Schools Therefore farm boys and girls should learn to recognize these harmful insects and to know how they live and how they may be destroyed. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition By this one act the reader can understand the difference between Daniel Drew and the neighboring farm boys, many of whom were better situated, doubtless, than was he. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Under the stress of mountain faring, the farm boy was not developing well. The Emigrant Trail They offered us tea, wine, grapes, and cake, and we came away at eleven, lighted home through the vineyards by Louis, the farm boy, with his lantern. A Little Swiss Sojourn In still other cases, and we are obliged to admit that these yet constitute the rule rather than the exception, the farm boy or girl has no opportunity for a high school education. New Ideals in Rural Schools And those who bought the extras learned how the kidnappers of Anthony Harrington allowed him to purchase for nine cents a turtle from a little farm boy whom he met at the station at Catskill. Tom Slade on Mystery Trail "And a farm boy——" "Yes, yes," she said, adding: "those few days on that farm were the only happy days of my life!" From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine In the country if the servant maids had not pleased the farm boys they used to get a branch of the crab apple and put it in the girl's window. Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District As George was about to start his team, a twelve-year old farm boy ran aboard the boat with a string of fine speckled trout strung on a willow twig. The Harris-Ingram Experiment Pride, prejudice, and penury must not be allowed to deprive the farm boys and girls of their right to education and normal development. New Ideals in Rural Schools The farm boys and girls made things or raised something to exhibit at the fair. The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair Immediately after the Boers had left, Mr. Schoeman dispatched one of his farm boys named Barry to De Jaeger, the nearest military post, to report the occurrence. Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker By rising they could see their boat drawn up on the shore, where, as arranged with Lillian and Eleanor, it had been left by the farm boy. Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid The farm boy stood it on the floor of the barn until he should have time to put it away. The Child's World Third Reader The maker was Mr. Deacon, a Baptist minister of Barton-in-the-Beans, who began life as a farm boy when he was eleven years of age. From John O'Groats to Land's End The flowering of imagination is no trivial incident, whether in one farm boy's life or in a people's. The California Birthday Book They proved to be fresh-faced, strong farm boys, for the most part, with a fair sprinkling of older mountaineers, and quite a contingent of half and quarter-bred Indians. The Rules of the Game The farm boy has in his work plenty of exercise of a general and sufficiently exhausting character, and he has the benefit of taking it out of doors. The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work They then walked on together, the big farm boy in overalls and the tall graceful girl in the enveloping gingham. Dorian He lived the healthy, active life of a farm boy, taking a keen interest in the affairs of the young people of the neighborhood, amusing the older heads by his mischievous pranks. Russell H. Conwell What do you care for the opinion of city rowdies, or a lot of farm boys? Main Street Nat had the usual appetite of a healthy farm boy, and Carl, in spite of his recent anxieties, and narrow escape from serious peril, did not allow himself to fall behind. Driven from Home, or Carl Crawford's Experience Tetlow's voice, suppressed and jubilant, suggested a fat, hoarse rooster trying to finish a crow before a coming stone from a farm boy reaches him. The Grain of Dust I became, in short, the gangling farm boy my aunt had known, scourged with chilblains and bashfulness, my hands cracked and sore from the corn husking. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories He was sometimes disobedient, often intractable, in no way different from thousands of other farm boys of those days or these. Russell H. Conwell Armed with a club in each hand, the young fellows from Guadalajara and Bonneville, and the farm boys from the ranches, leaped over the rails of the corral. The Octopus : A story of California When she was angry, the farm boys used to hide in the hay. The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy Whittier led the life of a New England farm boy, used to hard work and few pleasures. The Elson Readers, Book 5 At all events she was presiding, the others present being her son, their hired labourer, the farm boy, and two unmarried daughters. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs The farm boy, who had felt the reproach in the eyes of the man and woman, had gone out of the wood. Poor White The partridge, too, and the crows, hawks, and owls, and the song birds of the field and orchard, all enter into the farm boy's life. My Boyhood When she got into the country with no one but her brothers and two or three neighboring farm boys she herself became a boy. Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories Away off over the hill somewhere we could hear a lazy farm boy singing at the top of his voice: the higher cadences of his song reached us pleasantly through the still air. Adventures in Contentment Then the farm boys cheered, and the lumberjacks shouted, and the Indians yelled. America's War for Humanity It was a homely and primitive scene enough, pastoral as any farm boy's birth-place, and had been the seat of many toils and endearments. The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth The farm boy always has the whole of nature at his elbow and he is usually aware of it. My Boyhood He had been a farm boy all his life and had plowed many acres of rich black land. Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories I seem to have been a healthy, active child, very impressionable, and with more interests and a keener enjoyment of things than most farm boys have. Our Friend John Burroughs Squarely into their foam-flecked faces the farm boy drove the branch, dropped hold of it, and let it rest on the carriage pole. The Boys of Bellwood School Most farm boys can tell the moment of noon by their shadows. Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) It was my duty as a farm boy to help pick up the stone and pry up the rocks. My Boyhood A sparrow-hawk darted past on silent wings, a rabbit hopped across the road, while far away, the evening train on the "Frisco" whistled for a crossing; and nearer, a farm boy called to his cattle. That Printer of Udell's I was quite a hunter in my youth, as most farm boys are, but I never brought home much game—a gray squirrel, a partridge, or a wild pigeon occasionally. Our Friend John Burroughs The farm boy, who had seen the houseboat, and who was hurrying toward her, waved his hand as Bert called to him. The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat It was spoken more in the tone of nurse to nursling than of mother to son, still less that of mistress to farm boy; but Hal obeyed, only observing, 'Take care of her.' The Herd Boy and His Hermit But long afterward, when he had read some of my earlier magazine articles, he wrote to me, asking if I were indeed his early farm boy pupil. My Boyhood I was a farm boy, and all my life I've been wanting to get back to it. The Valley of the Moon I see that I was more curious and alert than most boys, and had more interests outside my special duties as a farm boy. Our Friend John Burroughs An untraveled farm boy at seventeen is such a vague creature anyway, and I was, in addition, such a bundle of sensibilities, timidities, and embarrassments as few farm boys are. Our Friend John Burroughs The paper just referred to is, as you may see, mainly written out of my memories as a farm boy. Our Friend John Burroughs This desire of the farm boy to slay every wild creature he saw was universal in my time. My Boyhood When I was a farm boy of twelve or thirteen years, one of our neighbors had a breed of chickens with large topknots that filled my eye completely. Our Friend John Burroughs Indeed, the foundation of my knowledge of the ways of the wild creatures was laid when I was a farm boy, quite unconscious of the natural-history value of my observations. Our Friend John Burroughs |
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