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...never learn to speak them fluently. He says that this certainly is not true of Spanish. Mireles insists that language classes must not be tedious. Conversation is the main thing. Texas teachers start off by making the sounds of Spanish vowels. On the second day of school third graders greet each other in Spanish. Children talk about their ages, games, homes. Gradually their vocabularies expand. Pupils learn how words and phrases should sound, not abstract rules. Formal grammar comes in high school. The same ideas are embodied in Mireles' textbooks (Mi Libra Espa...
Paul Lukas and Greet Garson, according to U.S. critics polled by Film Daily, did the best cinemacting of the year, he in Watch on the Rhine, she in Random Harvest. She got the same honor (plus an Oscar) last year for Mrs. Miniver...
Eleanor Roosevelt explained a nose-rubbing picture widely published in U.S. papers. She said that the head Maori guide in New Zealand, "a fine-looking woman" named Ragni, had asked permission to greet her "as we greet all distinguished visitors." Mrs. Roosevelt added that when she was a little girl her father "used to say, 'Let's have a Chinese kiss,' and then we would rub noses. ... I was very glad my father had taught me to rub noses properly...
...stalemate is as bad for the Japs as it is for the Chinese. The apathy and slow disintegration in China bear on the Allies' great gamble in Asia: that, when taps are blown in Europe and the South Pacific, Lao Ping will somehow be ready to greet G.I. Joe with cheers and a ready trigger finger...
...cooperation of V-12 authorities, the Club will produce a series of one-acters for Unit, and may give a full-scale production if it can get the necessary manpower. Big Tree, the swimming pool clubhouse behind the Grant Study will be open again Thursday, as H. D.ers greet stage-struck civilian and V-12 candidates with beer and cokes...