Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reappointed a fourth. It was revealed that this quartet was pledged to effect the ousting of School Superintendent William McAndrew upon the expiration of his term in 1928. Charge: he was not a "home town man." Slogan: "Chicago jobs for Chicagoans." Mayor Dever mentioned "acquaintance with the local atmosphere" as desirable in the occupant of Dr. McAndrew's position. This phrase even the "home town's" loudest newspaper took to mean sympathy for politicians; respect for a federation of querulous teachers led by one Margaret Haley and a "not too sensitive, so to speak . . . olfactory nerve...
...from the splendid solemnity and simplicity of the Old Wives--apparently a cuphemism for the mid-wives of legend--to the skipping triviality of Herod's son. He seems to have studied his part very thoroughly, and to have read himself as a veritable Rosencrantz or Guildenstern of the local court...
...content to be a mere spectator of educational endeavor. He was a persistent student of education, and he participated actively in many educational organizations--local, regional, and national. He accordingly obtained a comprehensive and detailed knowledge of educational needs and of contemporary aims and practices; and on that knowledge were based his just criticisms and constructive suggestions. At a time when the study of education as an important subject of university study was regarded with suspicion by the majority of academic faculties in leading American universities, he had the vision and the courage to establish the study of education...
...tour with the Boston Debutantes. Anyway there I was when an old man with whiskers and a cheerful cigar approached, saying, "Is this Hollis Hall." I brushed the ashes from his cigar and begged the question. He repeated it five times which I raised to seven by local subscription. And there we were. All of which I would have thought impossible had it not been for the fact that I worked at Raymond's for twenty years. "No", I replied, "This is not Hollis Hall...
...following awards will be made: prizes of $2,000 each, for the best national campaign, for the best campaign of industrial products, for the best local campaign, and for the best local campaign in cities of 100,000 population or less; a $2,000 prize for the most conspicuous advertising research to bring about economy and preclude waste; four prizes of $1,000 each for advertisements most effective in the use of text, in the use of pictorial illustration, in the combination of text and illustration, and in the use of typography...