Word: connors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blithely undisturbed by the typewriter issue was Miss Bertha Agnes Connor, a plump, blonde lady who supervises the penmanship work of 6,000 Boston teachers. As president of the Association, Miss Connor outlined her Theory of the History of Penmanship...
...years teachers and pupils fussed over the. Germanic script. While Miss Connor was in school, a devastating reaction set in. Standards collapsed right & left. Youngsters were allowed to run riot with pen and paper, express their personalities in rough squiggles, gross curlicues, boorish scrawls. "Horace Greeley's writing was responsible for this horrid idea," explained Miss Connor. "Just because he was a great man with a dreadful handwriting, it followed that all great men must have dreadful hands...
...Bertha Connor's own hand was a nasty little squiggle which made her mother ashamed to read her letters. Ashamed herself, Bertha ten years ago took up the new cursive style, based on long, slanting strokes. So pleased was she with her flowing hand that she resolved to spend all her time propagating the cursive system...
HARVARD '38 TUFTS '38 Larcom, g. g., O'Connor Scott, p. p., Zimman Magurn, cp. cp., Harris McKellar, 1d. 1d., Connors Cobb, 2d. 2d., Burrage Campion, c. c. Rossman J. Hunsaker, 2a. 2a., Coolidge P. Hunsaker, 1a. 1a., Greenslade Cleveland, ih. ih., Vounakes Sutro, oh. oh., Schapiro...
...JAMES E. CONNOR Washington...