Finally there will be the inspirational house captains, stately boy-men such as Young and Old Brooke, whose rule is firm but fair.
One article, headlined " John Prescott is the Princess Di of politics" (Princess Diana also spoke publicly about her bulimia), describes how " The girl from a stately home and the boy who failed his eleven-plus both grew into adults who rushed from official functions to throw up" (TI-28/05/2008).
Although he sang about living in Manhattan, the music often looked toward California, particularly the stately sway of Beach Boys ballads.
I sat behind her at a benefit once and boy, is she stately.
So, rather than launching into my anti-earring speech, I said, "I'm going to get us some coffee," and disappeared into the vast and stately student center to count how many boys were wearing earrings.
Hundreds mourned the fighter Hector Camacho on Saturday in the stately East Harlem church he attended as a boy, and hundreds more cheered and shouted "Macho" when his coffin was carried out and loaded into a hearse afterward.
His Lou, a doctor's son who lives in a stately house where he listens to opera records and thumbs through bulky old books, often looks like a little boy trying on grown-up clothes.
State Street may still need to become less stately.
In recent months, he has been joined outside the stately brick building by a husky man with a bushy beard, who greets the boys by chanting a Native American song and banging on a drum; sometimes, he shakes maracas.
In the basement of a stately, high-ceilinged church here earlier this month, a class for newly arrived refugees was momentarily interrupted by a young boy dressed in a Christmas-colored elf costume and a girl in a princess dress who'd run in chasing after him.
