His love of English had begun in boyhood and was crowned with his long tenure at St Xavier's College in Calcutta, to which his landowning family had come from the Punjab.
He retains that honesty and decency and homespun good sense and, yes, sometimes some bluntness, that he's carried with him since his boyhood in Searchlight.
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He disassembled two entire barns a couple of miles from his boyhood home in Berthierville, Que.
Near his boyhood home in San Diego, where his parents still live, residents say the Holmes family, which includes Mr. Holmes's younger sister, lived quietly and fit into a neighborhood filled with involved parents and active kids, where houses were always decorated for Halloween and Christmas, and neighbors hosted pool parties.
McGettigan III unveiled them in his opening statement on Monday, projecting boyhood photos on a big screen.
His boyhood had been spent in and out of his father's ice-cream plant, and in 1935 he started such a plant himself, the Wilber Farms Dairy in Buffalo.
But to understand fully why Algeria in the 1950s was such a painful subject for Camus, it is necessary to join him at large in the kingdom of poverty that was his boyhood and youth.
He touched on nearly every part of the Asia Pacific region during his speech, and talked about a boyhood visit to Japan with his mother, his birth in Hawaii, a childhood spent partly in Indonesia and the United States' position as a Pacific nation.
Conrad Steinhauer digitally edited images of his family members into a recent photo of his father's boyhood home in Fresno, California.
Several of his boyhood friends were shot dead in front of him.
At one point in our conversations, since he is as articulate and often surprising off the piano as on, I asked Mr. Alterman to describe his inner musical odyssey from boyhood in Atlanta to growing recognition in New York and by the jazz community.
He sets Audubon in the political context of the day: his uneasy boyhood during the French revolution, for example, memories of which made him later wince when having his unfashionably long hair cut by an Edinburgh barber.
Before signing for Celtic from Leicester City way back in 2000, Lennon waxed lyrical about his passion for his boyhood heroes.
The Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park in adjacent Johnson City preserves the ranch, as well as the site of his boyhood home.
Maybe it was a boyhood fascination with the story of how he had lost his arm in a war.
The Hammers are in danger of relegation this season but Ferdinand says there will be no mercy for his boyhood team.
As the problem was being fixed, Jobs told the audience a funny story of a prank that his boyhood pal and co-founder, Steve Wozniak, would play when Jobs was still in high school.
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