Word: humber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea that 'fat teachers aren't good teachers' is absolutely ridiculous. It smacks of sweeping generalization, always a bad habit, and dictates an inseparable link between appearance and intellect that does not exist." Mounting a crusade for Jim Babinetz, the Telegram interviewed Teacher Hilliard Anderson of Humber-crest public school, who happens to weigh 325 Ibs. Said he: "My size commands authority." The rival Toronto Star took a different tack. Since Jim is now eager to shed 60-80 Ibs., the Star hired a specialist to slim Jim, promised readers daily reports. Already Jim is down...
...first visit to the House in four months. Pale and less cherubic than usual, the old parliamentarian made his way to a corner spot near the Treasury Bench, chatted with members from both sides, voted twice with the government on minor issues. Next day Churchill's chauffeur-driven Humber made a turn on Parliament Square, collided with a bus. Unperturbed, Sir Winston grinned at the crowds, proceeded uninjured, his car's fender dented, its bumper askew...
...Louisa Kilner for her "brass." To the God-fearing Yorkshire farm folk of the East Riding, brass is land, the deity they worship six days of the week. Louisa is to inherit her father's farm on Sunk Island-a flat, melancholy spit of land reclaimed from the Humber estuary. To Sunk Island, Roger goes a-coortin...
...emerged from 10 Downing Street, climbed into his official car, and sped through the chill January darkness to Buckingham Palace. Minutes later, the palace announced that Queen Elizabeth "was pleased to accept" the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden. Swinging out through the palace gates, Eden's black Humber rolled through London's darkened back streets, flashing headlights to warn police of its approach. It stopped opposite the Victorian pile of the Museum of Natural History, where another car waited. A slim, feminine figure in a red cossack hat and pale, loose coat, and carrying a yellow hatbox, jumped...
...museum began putting its collection together in 1947, when North Carolina Oil Lawyer Robert Lee Humber persuaded the state legislature to appropriate $1,000,000 for the paintings. Spurred on by a promise of another $1,000,000 in paintings yet to come from the Kress Foundation, legislators later turned over a four-story building to house the collection, authorized another $341,000 for renovations. The museum hopes to keep growing with private donations, has already received such gifts as three 16th century tapestries from Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke, two British portraits by Raeburn and Hoppner from John Hay Whitney...