Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people, has the third toughest elective job in the nation. Above it in difficulty, short of the Presidency, only the Governorship of New York is supposed to rank. But other jobs, such as Vice President, Senator or Cabinet member, bring greater kudos. He would be a dull New York mayor indeed who did not tour the U. S. to give voters outside of New York a chance to look him over. No dullard is the incumbent, stumpy, staccato, hard-working New Deal Republican Fiorello ("Little Flower") Henry LaGuardia. He is also a good friend of Franklin Roosevelt who has announced...
...them talked Herb's father, all three talked Rodgers. Rodgers believes it had the best score he ever wrote, that what killed it was the idea itself: "You just can't talk about castration all evening. It's not only embarrassing, it's dull...
...Paul public-school teacher, and Julius M. Nolte of University of Minnesota, acted on the advice of Ralph Waldo Emerson to "smuggle" into grammar teaching "a little contraband wit, fancy, imagination, thought." Their defense for trying to teach grammar painlessly: modern children not only find grammar study dull but arrive in high school and college knowing wretchedly little about...
...senior high-school youngsters in Everett, Wash, into mentally superior and inferior groups and then determined where their parents, nine out of ten of whom originally lived outside the State, were born. His findings: parents from the northern States of the U. S. produced more bright children than dull ones; the southern States more dull children than bright; greatest preponderance of bright children was in the far West; biggest proportion of stupid ones in the South Central States (Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama. Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas). Dr. Blair, whose doctor's thesis reporting his investigation was sponsored by Columbia...
Last half of the story shows Jerry, 20 years later, now head of the bank, long since dutifully married to a good, dull wife. Determined that his five children shall have the things he missed-a decent allowance and tolerant understanding-he successfully conceals his shock when they get drunk, when his oldest son confesses to having a mistress. With heroic effort he swallows his chagrin when his favorite daughter goes off to Hollywood, returns pregnant but unmarried. But when two of his children confess they are Reds...