Word: offing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The son of a salesman, Frank Baxter did not start out to be a teacher at all. He began as a waterboy in Philadelphia's Hammerstein opera house (he carried glasses of water to singers in the wings), later became a clerk and bookkeeper for a manufacturing company.
"The number and variety of their costumes and disguises are countless . . . This eccentricity makes the problem of learning the names of a new class a formidable one for a man. He sees the girls on Monday morning looking like the wrath of God with hair uncombed and overalls pulled on...
But, admitted Erck, "the girls do study now and then and sometimes they produce quite excellent results." When they do poorly, "they take their penalties like men, and if under the weight of their trials . . . they do allow themselves to burst into tears . . . they become very angry with themselves. This...
Along University Avenue at the University of Southern California one afternoon last week, some 100 students huddled in the rain, waiting for the voice that would soon come through the loudspeaker. Inside Bovard Auditorium, 1,500 more waited in their seats. Finally, Professor Frank C. Baxter, dressed in a 20...
Glasses of Water. Whatever he read, his audience loved it. For that matter, students approved most everything Frank Baxter did, in or out of his Shakespeare class. "If you haven't taken a course from Dr. Baxter," the daily Trojan last week declared, "you haven't been to...