He worked as a delivery boy, a lather boy, a lift boy and a bell boy before entering the housepainting trade, mastering the crafts of graining and marbling just in time to be enlisted as a boiler-stoker in the Second World War.
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According to Guardsman Lee Wheeler, the duchess told him that she did not know if she was expecting a boy or a girl, but said she would like a boy and William would like a girl.
And as a young boy I was -- as a young boy I was coming to a different world.
"My memories of my son are that he was a beautiful little boy, a very happy boy who was decent and polite, " he said.
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So as he came back into the UK, this was picked up by the immigration authorities and the assumption was that the returning boy was a substitute either for a boy unrelated to the family or for one of the mother's nephews.
Yaseen was a boy who loved to learn, he was always happy, he was a very good boy, very intelligent and very polite.
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That's when, upon simple inspection, a doctor or a nurse pronounces a baby a boy or a girl.
A. In the midst of moving to Google and then Facebook, Sandberg wed and had two children, a boy and a girl.
About a fortnight ago, Interfet soldiers entered the deserted border town of Bilbao and came upon a boy carrying a written plea from people in Oecussi belonging to Falintil's political wing.
If JFK won't be budged, Mr. Kessler thinks Lincoln could fit in well between the arch of triumph and a fountain adorned by Neptune, Tritons, and a boy grasping a cornucopia.
The BBC's Cindy Sui, in Taipei, says the executions come at a time of inflamed public debate about the death penalty following the death of a boy in a video arcade.
When an investment is made in a girl or woman, she invests 90 percent into her families, as opposed to the 30 to 40 percent that a boy or a man would invest.
She wrapped the necklace around her finger again, and this time it popped loose, flinging itself from her neck onto a bright, fuzzy photograph of a boy and a girl, laughing, having fun against a backdrop of sparkling water.
Yet she noted also that how to catch the passage of time in a still image is an old problem, one that Chardin was exploring over 200 years ago when he painted a boy making a house of cards.
During closing arguments, his defense sought to poke holes in the prosecution's case, pointing to inconsistencies with the testimony of Mike McQueary, a former graduate student and assistant coach who said he saw Sandusky apparently sodomizing a boy in a university shower.
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When, in a jolly tale, a boy sees half a man fall down the chimney, are you supposed to get upset?
It was a Bellanca Super Decathlon two-seater with a single engine, one of several sitting round the ranch that day, in which Mr Fossett might leave as casually as a boy might take a bike ride to the grocery store.
Last summer, in the Hamburg airport, I saw a young boy at a ticket counter, sobbing.
One video showed a young boy in a red-striped shirt, his face bruised and full of fear.
"At one point I tried to take a picture of a young boy attacking a camera, " Sussman wrote.
Now, here I was, a young boy with a white mom, a black father, raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.
The film is said to involve a new boy, a "snow dog" and such modern landmarks as the London Eye.
People have gathered in Canterbury to pay tribute to a man and a boy who drowned at a pond in the city.
In a statement, Charlie's parents, Nick and Julia, and their 12-year-old daughter, Harriet, described him as a loving boy with a very supportive family.
One crowded Friday evening, I looked up to find a teenaged boy and a short man on the other side of my check-in podium.
Work has begun to take away a controversial statue depicting a naked boy with a frog in a part of ancient Venice, Italian media report.
He was no expert but had learned a little something about wine at his previous job working as a pool boy at a winemaker-run hotel.
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But in a sitting room that had been turned into a shrine to a dead boy, a grieving Shia mother had a very different view.
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