Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month, the University Elementary School reopened with 175 pupils. There were still doubts as to whether Miss Seeds's youngsters had learned enough spelling, arithmetic, and reading just by "doing." The carefully neutral Westwood Hills Press decided to find out. The paper picked 81 graduates of Miss Seeds...
The plot: the king of Basin Street (Arturo de Cordova) is run out of town by the mother (Irene Rich) of a music-minded debutante (Dorothy Patrick) who likes him and the short-haired music played in Arturo's basement by Louis Armstrong (Louis Armstrong). Arturo and Louis move...
In an appeal to liberal minded veterans of the University, Stanley Karson '48, president of the Harvard chapter, urged all to join in the fight "to achieve a more democratic and prosperous America and a more stable world." Karson stated that AVC is the only voice of the liberal veteran...
Also reactivated, with a difference: Sinclair Lewis, who made his first big noise lambasting all the herd-minded Americans who join lodges and wear funny hats at male get-togethers. A Yale class reunion brought Lewis running, obediently decked in the herd's badges and wearing the standard reunion...
Jimmy Murphy, 25, had just knocked Napoleon across the kitchen with a baseball bat. Jimmy, a single-minded lush, had a frightful temper. Sometimes, according to Author Natalie Anderson Scott, he was capable of "smiling humorously," but more often anger "twisted his handsome face" and corrupted his "sweet, childish mouth...