Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talent for handling them are deliberately forced out of the teaching profession in favor of graduates of the State Normal School because, if you please, they have not learned how to teach by means of an all-important and all-embracing subject called, appropriately, Education. What becomes of the brilliant and versatile college girls? . . . whom we parents should like to see molding the characters of our children in their tender years? I'll tell you. They are driven, by law, into the private schools...
...other mothers feel the lack of brilliant college girls in public schools...
Psychiatrist Abraham Arden Brill rallied to the teachers' defense with a statement that manic-depressives and other neurotics often made brilliant teachers. In the midst of the furor police picked up a high school substitute instructor in Brooklyn, charged her with attempting to strip in a subway station...
...firmament of the Son of Heaven a brilliant new star has risen! Supple as the neck of the swan is the charm of her graceful form. Her black and sparkling eyes, in hours of ease, envelop and thrill that happy mortal allowed to see. O, Nguyen Huu Hao! Beautiful are all thy ways...
...Seminary, Boston Latin School, Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute. Amherst College and Lane Theological College. As a missionary preacher he lectured Indiana frontiersmen on gambling, drinking and wenching. In 1861 Beecher became editor of the Independent and was drawn into the most unfortunate part of his career. His assistant, a brilliant, erratic journalist named Theodore Tilton, and the owner of the paper, H. C. Bowen, became such radical Republicans that Beecher was forced to resign. Presumably for spite, Tilton accused Beecher of having made improper proposals to Mrs. Tilton. A third person succeeded in convincing soft-hearted Beecher that...