Word: gambol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just where this sheep-like gambol after perfection leads, the Vagabond has no idea. But he does believe there is a load of common sense in the words of a distinguished physician who dares people to be themselves without shame: "Let us not train our children to a style of life in which they shall always demand to be first. Let us teach them to go out into the world and not be perfect--to do a good job there and have the courage to make mistakes if necessary. Let them not feel that their self-cateem depends on their...
...MacDowell was really the heroine of the gambol. When Composer MacDowell died it was his wish that his home in Peterborough, N. H. be used as a retreat by U. S. creative artists. After his fatal mental collapse there was little money left and it was Mrs. MacDowell who undertook to execute his plan. Though frail and crippled, she gave concert and lecture tours, raised nearly $100,000 in the name of the Edward MacDowell Association. Simultaneously with her efforts grew the Peterborough Colony where there are now 600 acres instead of the original 200 and 23 studios available...