Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time was when Michael Solomon was known as just about the most contented teacher in The Bronx. His subject was Latin, and when he first started at the DeWitt Clinton High School in 1908, almost every pupil went at least through Caesar. Even as late as 1923, when he became...
"What does concern me, in common with thinking partisans of both parties, is not just winning this election, but how it is won ... I hope and pray that we Democrats . . . can campaign not as a crusade to exterminate the opposing party, as our opponents seem to prefer, but as a...
But at the convention itself, the official attitude was compromise. Donald Wilson, national commander of the Legion, who defended the article in a news conference, set the tone by carefully skirting the controversy in his speech to the N.E.A. He contented himself with a warning against the menace of Soviet...
If the little coal and pottery town of Crooksville (pop. 2,956), Ohio had ever set out to pick a potential hero from among its young men, it would never have chosen Ronald Rosser. Not that Ronald wasn't well liked-he was one of the quietest and best...
How Not to Be a Cook. For all her love of people and parties, Mrs. Eisenhower is essentially a homebody, most relaxed and contented when dealing with the problems of domesticity. One of the few rigid rules of her marriage is: "You take care of the office-I'll...