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Oldest of Ogontz prizes is the "Whisk-Broom Neatness" award. To girls whose rooms are spick-&-span go silver brooms engraved: "Order is Heaven's first law." This year's 16 whisk-broom winners were applauded by many a broom-winner mother and grandma (80% of the students are related to graduates) in the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Maidens in Uniform | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Near Ottawa, Ill., William Jackson, 14, thrilled by a radio crime story, put a charge of buckshot into his grandma, smashed her head with the shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Less picturesque than such better known family memoirs as Life With Father, Grandma Called It Carnal, Mencken's Happy Days, Author Flexner's story of her girlhood is nevertheless charming Americana. Quaker-plain in the telling, it is noteworthy among oldsters' memoirs for one fact in particular: despite Author Flexner's pleasant memories, she evokes the unmistakable stresses and veiled repressions that lay under the surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quaker Aristocrats | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Fibber is always Fibber, but Molly plays many recurrent script characters-Grandma, frustrated Mrs. Wearybottom, Teeny, a neighbor's child famed for throwing Fibber for a minor loss every time she pops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fibber & Co. | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...this has been transformed by the magic eye of the camera and the Hollywood touch. As a film, The Primrose Path has become a problem picture with false notes from Steinbeck. Grandma (Queenie Vassar) still likes it carnal, is still a coy and bawdy frump, still gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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