Word: aproned
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...reason-to suppose that many youths will "go wrong" in the Army. If further guidance and restrictions are necessary when the younger men are inducted, it should come from the Army and not from the decisions of dry lobbyists. No soldier needs to be tied to the apron strings of the W.C.T.U...
...year eleven in the life of a pale, slight, impressionable little bourgeois boy who clung to a servant's hand in the battle-littered streets of Petrograd. Said the servant: "This is the revolution, Mitya." Young Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich only stared and clutched the servant's apron. But what he saw and heard he pondered in his precocious head. Once safe at home, he sat down and composed two pieces: Hymn to Liberty and Funeral March to the Victims of the Revolution. A prodigy and a prodigious event...
...York City parents flapped their newspapers in surprise at big advertisements in which a little girl was shown clinging to her mother's apron and crying : "Mama, I hate to go to school today. It's my turn to stand!" What this doleful picture actually reflected was not anybody's indignation over unseated tots but the concern of 31,000 city schoolteachers for their jobs. The Board of Education, for the first time in the history of the school system, proposed to fire 125 high-school teachers because it didn't have enough money to meet...
...learned series of articles in the quarterly Psychiatry, Manhattan Psychiatrist Dr. David Mordecai Levy tells how tight apron strings, excessive mothering, make problem children...
Dressed in a seamy old coat and patched cotton-sack apron. Patriarch Carver puttered about his memorial museum at Tuskegee last week, unpacking, dusting and hanging his life work as an artist. One of his paintings, a larger-than-life-size picture of a yucca plant, was half a century old, got honorable mention at Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. Of it, he crowed delightedly: "I painted that from my memories of the Western plains. My school-teacher tried to copy it. She failed. She forbade the other pupils to copy it, because she couldn...