From an early age he sang as a choirboy.
Whalen is the only choirboy who never attended college.
He became a choirboy at the age of six.
Taking choirboys on tour abroad would have necessitated taking female carers too, and rumours of personnel behaving inappropriately on tour could destroy musical careers.
All choirboys are pupils at the school and are scholarship holders.
His monument has a bust and a single choirboy.
The clergy and choir were robed; the choirboys carrying all the flowers: a picturesque appearance of reverential sorrow.
The iron and steel industry is much stronger and more vicious than an outing of choirboys.