Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ungrammatical phrases and sat down. Then he went back to his hotel and wept with rage. Next day he hired one_ Madame Amanda, a Metropolitan Opera voice coach, to teach him how to talk. He got Damon Runyon to write him a speech. He memorized it, studied grammar, went on a 40-night lecture tour (at $1,000 a night) and conquered his fears...
Harold Laski attended Manchester Grammar School, performed brilliantly in Latin and Greek, then went up to Oxford to take a First Class Honors degree in modern history. From Oxford, Laski went as a lecturer to McGill University in Montreal, thence to Harvard, where he became fast friends with Felix Frankfurter and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, among others. At Harvard, Laski inveighed tirelessly against the state, just as his "Manchester-school" predecessors had before him. Sometimes he would say: "All governments are bloody. The anarchists are right...
Teaching, in spite of the publicized shortage of grammar and secondary school instructors, is not so open a field as formerly. Well-qualified Radcliffe graduates, however, can still enter it, and count on permanent employment...
...compensation insurance for his employees. His homes for workers were no palaces (some were made out of old refrigerator cars), but they were clean, whitewashed and handy to running hot & cold water. He had installed plain but serviceable concrete swimming pools, had contributed land and $150,000 for a grammar school adjoining his property. And-most important of all-he had worked hard to take the curse off highly seasonal work by planting crops in sequence, giving year-around jobs to a permanent force of 1,200 (although 1,300 more were needed for peak harvests). The committee...
Master Sergeant James R. Hendrix, Congressional Medal of Honor winner at 19, had a new ambition at 24: "I want to finish grammar school. I only got to the fourth grade before...