Word: hire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected, trouble developed, and the young teacher lived up to expectations by soundly thrashing one of his pupils. Bub the pupil, resenting thus having been beaten at his own game, started suit against the teach ar. The teacher did not have any money to hire a lawyer. So he went into court and defended himself. He won again...
...spending more money to make a better military force would really make a better country. I would be the last to disparage the military art. It is an honorable and patriotic calling of the highest rank. But I can see no merit in any unnecessary expenditure of money to hire men to build fleets and carry muskets when international relations and agreements permit the turning of such resources into the making of good roads, the building of better homes, the promotion of education, and all the other arts of peace which minister to the advancement of human welfare...
Three moderately middle-aged women discover that their husbands are finding fun away from the family fireside, and decree retaliation. They hire three healthy and ingenuous college youths to force their husbands' jealousy. To acquaint themselves with these young men they arrange a house party at Glen Cove (where orderly house parties are normally the rule). The young men, somewhat puzzled by the exact extent of their duties, decide to earn their money thoroughly. By the time the husbands arrive dresses are torn, shoes are off, and hair is all unpinned. The situation is complicated by the presence...
...Enchanted April. There was only one difficulty with this play and that was its too minute observance of its parent novel. If you remember that delightful book it will come back as a gently genial tale of certain weary London ladies who happened to hire an Italian castle. The tale told of their blossoming under the soft suns of Italy. It was the type of thing that the drama, with its imperative demands for action, recaptures uneasily. All the recapturing possible on the stage has been effected, with a pleasant but not particularly engrossing result...
...Teacher tenure, i. e., discouragement of the "hire-and-fire" policy...