Mr Blair scorned Tory leader William Hague, saying he had his opinions delivered "by the paper boy".

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He made his way, at the age of nine, to France to join his two brothers, and worked in Paris as a chimney sweep and paper boy.

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When Buffett bought the Omaha World-Herald, he fondly recalled his days as a delivery boy for the paper.

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One boy had been making paper flowers with hidden messages of gratitude in the petals.

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After dropping out of school at 16 and trying his luck as a scallop fisherman, he became a copy boy on his local paper in North Carolina.

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His core discovery, of how to get spatial information about atoms in a magnetic field, was scribbled on a paper napkin over dinner in a Big Boy restaurant in Pittsburgh, between two bites of a hamburger.

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He watched as Tuttle took the paper calmly, examined it, looked at the boy, glanced at Wadsworth, nodded, then deliberately tore the sketch in four, placed it in the fire, waited until it blazed, said something further when in quarter-profile to the limner, and made his exit.

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As he mashes the joystick controls, Colin Angle grins like a 6-year-old boy playing with his first radio-controlled car, freshly torn wrapping paper thrown aside.

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Then, hearing the boy flush the toilet in the cubicle behind her, she scooped up the nasty mess with some paper towels and dropped it into the black bag she had with her for rubbish, so that he would not have to see it.

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