Word: disciplinarianism
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...business. Some of the youngsters I've sent there haven't turned out so brilliantly." "I will succeed," promised John Henry, aged 14. He did succeed, graduating in 1892, serving with the Marines in the Spanish War, in Panama, Santo Domingo, and China. He was a strict disciplinarian, a hard worker, an able officer. He did not, however, get to France during the World War. For a time that omission looked as if it might spoil his chances of gaining the post that is every Marine officer's ambition, Commandant of the Corps. And last November when...
...seasons at the Lake Shore Country Club at Glencoe, Ill. since 1928. That spring the Tar Heels lost two matches. The next year they lost to Princeton. Since then they have lost to no one. Mild and affable in demeanor, North Carolina's Coach Kenfield is a strict disciplinarian. In 1930 he benched his No. i player for breaking training. Before he turned professional, he played well enough to reach the semi-finals of the national clay court championship in 1920. Now nearing 40, he is spry enough to give any of his proteges a match, beat most...
...complete the job of putting Avco on a paying basis, Mr. Cord last week chose a board of nine, himself included. Two were Cord executives: Vice President Lucius B. Manning of Cord Corp.; Major Lester Draper ("Bing") Seymour, a small, genial disciplinarian who flew with the A. E. F. and who has been president of American Airways since December. Two were Cord lawyers: stocky General Counsel Raymond S. Pruitt; Lyndol L. Young, who grew up with Cord in Los Angeles, hunted squirrels with him on the site of the Ambassador Hotel, graduated from the University of Southern California...
...discover why the Maine sank. During the War he commanded all U. S. subchasers in European waters. He married his cousin, is childless. Ashore he putters around a flower garden, smacks over a dish of boned shad, keeps a voluminous scrap book. Afloat he is a strict but just disciplinarian. He talks in a low, melodious drawl, never raising his voice to match his temper. Slim of stature, smiling of face, he gets his nickname from his sandy red hair, his apple cheeks. He believes ardently in big guns and big navies but does not tactlessly preach his belief from...
...year's headmistress would be Emma Barber Turnbach, former singing director and headmistress for the last ten years at quiet Dongan Hall on Staten Island, N. Y. Headmistress Turnbach, aged about 45, is short, scholarly, charming. A onetime graduate student at Chicago and Columbia, she is a middling disciplinarian, interested chiefly in music...