Word: donning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Pleasant words are more effective. When children refused to dress a doll, the teacher got much better results by saying "Please do" than by scolding: "I don't understand why you refuse. . . . You shouldn't refuse to dress the doll." Exception: to the pleasant approach one peewee responded...
Robert Vincent is 39. as a boy learned to record by doing chores around the old Edison studios in Manhattan. He lived for a time in Oyster Bay, where he got to know the late Theodore Roosevelt. His first recording was of Theodore Roosevelt's voice, greeting Vincent'...
Later Mr. Thweatt declared: "At the close of the talk, Capone's face seemed to radiate, and when I asked those prisoners to stand who felt the need and will to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour, he was the first to rise." That this "conversion...
(Twentieth Century-Fox) will be a revelation to cinemaddicts who have been led to believe that all great figures of the 19th Century were just Tyrone Power in period costume. Alexander Graham Bell turns out to be Don Ameche without a haircut. However, Loretta Young, who is getting to be...
"I don't want to endanger my amateur standing in any way this summer on the proposed trip, but I suppose I'll have to take on professionals too," said Clark as a parting shot. "Also, I'm a little worried about the various types of fish that would be...