Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picked as her successor and the school's fifth headmistress Miss Dorothy Brockway. Pretty, young (37), brunette Dorothy Brockway, graduate of swankless Barnard College, has for the past eight years been assistant supervisor at Miss Hewitt's classes. Practical Miss Brockway's pet policy is emphasizing citizenship, showing her pupils how the other 99% live. To this end she has made a practice of taking them to places which would have shocked aristocratic Miss Spence into calling for smelling salts: Ellis Island, the Stock Exchange, the Children's Court, Fulton Fish Market...
...They had chosen England because they believed the English to be the world's most law-abiding people. Their chief aim was to give Jon a normal childhood. Colonel Lindbergh, though he might become the No. 1 expatriate, did not intend to give up his U. S. citizenship...
...Fannie Hurst thrown in, A Stone Came Rolling is a strange mixture of unabashed sentiment and social indignation. When Britt moved down into North Carolina's Piedmont to farm, his easygoing charm, church-going habits and knowledgeable affection for the soil would soon have admitted him to honorable citizenship. But his wife Ishma's goings-on set tongues wagging, heads shaking. A beauty, intelligent and subversive, she set the neighboring town of Dunmow on its ear, was sure to be found at the storm-centre of all industrial disturbances. Mill-owner Bly Emberson, sanctified by a lifetime...
...American campus. Though it displeases him very much is appears to this reviewer that indifference, annoying as it can be, is preferable to half-baked activity and student organization such as is seen today in the middle and west of Europe. Indifference may not be good preparation for citizenship but it is better than youthful partisanship and violence...
...Lostant, Ill., having applied for U. S. citizenship, Siamese Twins Lucio and Simplicio Godino, 27, Filipinos, were notified by the U. S. Immigration Bureau that they could not be given naturalization papers unless they served three years in the U. S. Army...