Word: misbehaviors
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...that what its boys need most is religion, sportsmanship and selfdiscipline. The prep school's formula is Spartan: up at "bell" (6:45 a.m.), cold showers, dark suits on Sundays, chapel (Episcopal) every morning, black marks (which have to be made up through chores like leaf-raking) for misbehavior. The boys must get their Latin conjugations straight, and are encouraged to play a creditable game of football. Such a regime, thinks Brazil's Millionaire Press Lord Assis Chateaubriand, is just what is needed by Brazilian students, for the most part gay youths more given to sambas than study...
Professional Standards. In Milwaukee, the Journal carried a classified ad: "SITTER FOR BOYS. Grandpa in 50s will sit evenings with your boys age 4 and up. If boy is well behaved, 'no charge.' If permitted to attempt to regulate MISBEHAVIOR into BEHAVIOR, still 'no charge.' If I am not permitted to attempt to teach your boy the 'manners of a little Southern gentleman' I do not wish to SIT or associate with your 'young...
Thayer notes in his history that "transgressions of arbitrary academic or theological requirements are punished more severely than misbehavior which indicates real moral defects: . . . 'neglecting analysing' is twice as wicked as lying; absence for recitation is as blameworthy as drunkenness...
...court martial for "misbehavior before the enemy" was swift and crushing. After a three-day trial at a command post 200 yards behind the front lines, Leon Gilbert became the first U.S. soldier in Korea sentenced to die for panicking under fire...
...week, it was all Judge Jackson could do to defend himself and his mission. He plaintively insisted that 1) he would not pry into any individual's misbehavior; 2) he was against federal censorship of the movies; 3) he had warned Senator Johnson that he would have to keep in confidence anything he had learned during his past service in Hollywood. All he wanted, he pleaded, was to help the industry to cure itself of a weakness for commercial exploitation of its stars' private sins. Also, he favored a "constructive" approach to immorality, e.g., turning social workers loose...