Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Puerto Rico, reputedly at the instigation of Dr. Barcelo's Liberals, protested Governor Gore's appointment of Rafael Alonzo Torres, Socialist, to the University Board of Trustees. Student delegations twice called on the Governor, were twice refused admittance. Incensed, they presented the Governor with a Manual of Manners, then went on strike, demanding the removal of Socialist Torres...
...watches all the way. Says Teacher Macy: "A less vigorous child could never have done what she has done, and a less robust woman than I was would have gone to pieces under the strain." Her first job was to establish communication, which she did by teaching Helen the manual (finger) alphabet. In three years Helen had made such strides that the U. S. press had picked her up as a prodigy. Annie and Helen went north, lived for some years on "the capricious bounty of the wealthy." Then a fund was established; they settled down to get Helen through...
...year-old Lady Mendl (onetime Elsie de Wolfe, famed interior decorator), who obeyed only when her husband cried: "Damn it all, jump!" Towed 150 yards to shore by the Marquis d'Alemeida, said she: "That 10 minutes' work with the fire extinguishers was the only manual labor most of the men had done in their lives...
Carpenters and laborers clumped into 300 Chicago schools last week, began dismantling manual training and "household arts" equipment. The Chicago Board of Education had awarded contracts for converting eleven junior high schools into senior high schools. The Board's program to throw $5,000,000 worth of "frills" out of the schools (TIME, July 24 et seq.) was under...
...will sign anything blindfolded, because I am so in love with Barbara!" cried Alexis Mdivani, secretary of a "Georgian Legation" in Paris that neither Russian legitimists nor the Soviet government recognizes, and he put his sign manual to a paper, which, according to the Hearst Universal Service, gave him a settlement of $250,000 a year. Pleased Papa Franklyn Hutton gave the pair a yacht for a wedding present and they departed for a honeymoon in Venice, Biarritz and Barcelona before settling down to what Princess Barbara said would be "leisure...