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...trouble began with "The Star Spangled Banner." A lubberly, stoop-shouldered, churlish boy, one Ralph Esposito, refused to sing it. So his teacher sent him to Principal William M. Rainey's office.* The boy went, but would give no satisfactory explanation of his stubbornness. "Well," said Principal Rainey, "do you want to put on the boxing gloves with one of the other boys? Or do you want me to make your mother come to school?" The boy shook his head against boxing. "See, that proves that he is yellow. He wants to hide behind his mother's skirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Brooklyn | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...artistic sensibilities of Joseph Esposito, 14-year-old Italian of the Dore Elementary School in Chicago, were upset in his classroom by a chromo of George Washington. So he saved $85 by selling ice cream, privately commissioned an artist to copy the Stuart portrait of Washington which he had seen in the Chicago Art Institute. Last week he presented the oil painting to his school. He is behind in his studies, but he has given boards of education, throughout the land, something on which to ponder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Interior Decorating | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...Esposito. He felled 380-pound Mrs. Esposito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jul. 21, 1924 | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, one Lawrence Esposito, 130 pounds, awoke in the night hearing some one in his room. He leaped from his bed, scratching, kicking, beating, flooring the intruder. He then discovered his antagonist was 380-pound Mrs. Esposito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 21, 1924 | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

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