Word: foster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ZANDER THE GREAT?Alice Brady plays an engaging foster mother, taking the orphaned Alexander to find his father in Arizona. They encounter instead a "brutal" bootlegger in chaps?whom the little child leads into a vale of righteous happiness...
...common fallacy of the classroom that a lesson can be learned by a comprehensive knowledge of its salient features, without regard to the medium used for its expression. The movement of educational opinion away from former methods of studying by rote has helped to foster this abstract and general process of assimilation. In theory, the movement has been a good one since it was hitherto possible to parrot the word of the text with no knowledge of the lesson itself. But there are also distinct disadvantages which have led to a more careless interpretation of the subject matter involved...
Bristling defenders of Americanism at Columbia have chosen rotten eggs, and masked man-handling to combat radicalism. They replied to the "insulting" doctrines of William Z. Foster by showering him and his audience with eggs; they answered jeers at the R. O. T. C. on parade by properly subduing with barrel-staves the student who pleaded guilty...
William Z. Foster's weakness for rhetoric. Besides being profane, he compares Mr. Taft's judicial garment to Mussolini's shirt...
...done much to foster the present vogue of songs and other small pieces of the Italian masters of the 17th and 18th centuries, composers whose work, with its formalistic sedateness and untrumpeting beauty, is the very caviar of caviar for these jazz-blaring years...