Word: kent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went there. By the system of "Community Service" at the farm, stables, in the woods, in the garage, in the power house, in student government, etc., each student was taught something practical, along with studies and sports. The school was MEANT to be entirely different from Taft, Choate, Kent and all the rest, which tended to turn out "types." As for the "rich kids," let me tell you that only a mere handful of the 90-odd boys there during my three years paid the full $1,500 tuition then asked...
...Kent Smith is impressively military as Enobarbus; his greatest flaw is a continuous attempt to make the speech sound "realistic," a style which crushes the beautiful verse of such speeches as "The barge she sat in ..." Ralph Crinton as Oetavius is excessively noisy--perhaps more insistent than calculating. Lenore Ulrie's Charmian, complete with New York accent and undulating movements, is the low point of the performance...
Given away, by earnest Artist Rockwell Kent: his dairy business (estimated at $10,000) and milk route (but not his cows) in Ausable Forks, N.Y. Since he started campaigning for Henry Wallace a month ago, explained Kent, he had lost about 100 of his 300 customers and two of his four hired hands. So he handed his business and "whatever good will may remain" to the two remaining hands...
Says Binder: "The U.P. is so convinced that it cannot get a prize while [A.P. Boss Kent] Cooper is a member of the advisory board that it refuses to submit [any more stories...
...Navy rule had always been: no talk of women, politics or religion in the wardroom. But for two years now, Annapolis midshipmen had been sponsoring something called the Wardroom Panel, where such guests as Navy critic Rear Admiral (ret.) Ellis M. Zacharias, Columnist Frank Kent, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer and Lord Inverchapel could damn the torpedoes or anything else they pleased. Some did and some didn't. Last week Cartoonist-Author Bill Mauldin, who used to be an Army enlisted man himself, stood up front. As usual, no officers were invited, but a record 1,200 midshipmen turned...