Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wall Around a Pool," by Philip Brooks, the characters are of a somewhat higher social class (Harvard and Radcliffe, tall French windows, Atlantic Monthly) but they face a similar decision. Here we are permitted to observe the event. Unfortunately "Wall Around a Pool" is less simply written than the others. The hero's though-stream is tainted with literature, and his phrases sometimes suggest the love-pulps. "You could neck her and yammer love between her teeth and all the time her mind would be skating on that little pool." The heroine talks in the early Noel Coward-Philip Barry...
...charging tuition. In Lamar County, white children's school term was shortened to eight months, Negro children's schools were closed. At Villa Rica, a mass meeting raised $2,000 to keep schools open four weeks. Among the contributions: from the Villa Rica high-school senior class, $25 that its members had saved for their annual trip to the Georgia seacoast...
American League. Although the World Champion New York Yankees are overwhelming favorites to win their fourth straight pennant, the most talked of team in the league is the Boston Red Sox. To camp followers this spring they showed such class that they are generally given an outside chance to beat the favorites to the wire-or at least give them a run for their money. How much of a threat they turn out to be will depend largely on a trio of rawboned rookies: Ted Williams, Jim Tabor and Woodie Rich...
...Without class lists, tutoring schools can only make announcement of reviews and prepared notes through blanket letters to all undergraduates...
...Peters also suspects tutoring schools of rifling class room drawers or breaking open absence report boxes in the college halls. To prevent these practices, it was suggested that Faculty men discontinue the habit of leaving lists in the classroom and that janitors be instructed to watch the report boxes...