Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the little boys at his Brooklyn public school teased gangling Arnold Baker. They made fun of him because he was 14 and still in the fifth grade, they shoved him about at recess time, shrilled derisive nicknames at him, called him "Big Boy," "Daddy Longlegs," "High-Pockets." Timid, lonely High-Pockets had a bad time of it. One day last week High-Pockets refused to go to school, again begged his mother to let him quit and go to work. When she went out, High-Pockets locked every door and window in the house, crawled up to and stuck...
...course the cream of the milking, the grade A girls, are pretty well pleased, while all the others who managed to keep out of "no man's land", that area where strangely enough the signs of battle are least in evidence, can't kick. And at least the tail enders can console themselves with the thought that they are in the majority, which is what counts in this democratic country of ours...
...merits of this plan are superior to the older method. With every state offering candidates, a competition will be stimulated which will assure a high grade, representative group at Oxford and the choice of any foreign university for the student in his third year makes possible a broader and more cultural education than heretofore...
Again he rang the Republican challenge on U. S. advantages: "In proportion to our population, we have one-fourth more of our children in grade schools than the most advanced other country in Europe. . . . Today we have more of our youth in institutions of higher learning than all the rest of the 1,500,000,000 people of the world put together. . . "Twice the number of homes owned . . . four times as much electricity . . . seven times as many automobiles . . . four times as many telephones and radio sets...
Though the list included Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, George ("Bugs") Moran, Joseph ("Joe") Aiello and other Grade A gangsters, only eight minor figures were rounded up by police during the past fortnight. They were: Terrence ("Terrible Terry") Druggan, ill in a hospital; Danny Stanton, jailed because his gun was said to prove ballistically that he had shot swart Jack Zuta; Caponeman Jack Guzick, first arrested by Federal agents for income-tax evasion; James (''Fur") Sammons, robber, killer, ex-convict; Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell, Capone beer salesman; ("Dago") Lawrence Mangano, west side gambling-house keeper; George ("Red") Barker...