Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 4, 2025
This was a new complication and just as he had thought he was safely out of the woods, too. Ted hung his head, gave consent to his uncle's question by silence and braced himself for a lecture, though he was a little relieved that he need not bring up the subject of that inconvenient flunking of his, himself; that his uncle was already prepared, whoever it was that had told tales.
And his father would look grave and tell him not to mind, that his mother wasn't well, and that she couldn't help it and Hoofy really didn't think she could, being made that way. Just the same, he dreaded going home to say good-bye dreaded it so much he felt like flunking it and wiring he couldn't come.
It shall be done. If any officer in his brigade showed signs of flunking his job because it appeared impossible, the brigadier would just look at him once and then that officer would remember the motto and go and do his job or die trying. "In the army, sir, the esprit de corps doesn't bubble up from the bottom. It filters down from the top.
Why, I thought you were such good friends!" "He wasn't talking friendship, mother, and I was furious with him for flunking his exams. He passed in only five out of seven. He ought to have done better than that. He's not stupid; it's that fatal popularity. He's captain of this and manager of that, and they give him such a lot of money. And they pet him, too; they make excuses for him all the time.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking