Word: older
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dizzy heights of Matthews or Thayer on what may well be a fool's errand, or to peer in rooms suspiciously at embarrassed residents and their lady friends. If couples want to evade the law, there is little to stop them. "Chaperons" may suggest a stern body of older men who sit stiffly on the edge of their chairs and rivet their eyes on guilty pairs, but they are actually no more than friends from across the hall who can be privately instructed to gaze out the window...
...Deceiver. In Kansas City, 18-year-old Lillian Arlene Bucher went to court for a divorce, complained that "he told me he was 78-actually he was five years older...
...Queen Mother Margherita visited Maria Montessori's Casa del Bambini. Italian schoolmasters began to try out her methods. Montessori schools mushroomed throughout Europe and the U.S. As she grew older, the Dottoressa's stout figure, in its academic robes, became a familiar sight in lecture halls all over the world. Students crowded to hear her speak at the University of Rome. Mussolini made her an honorary Fascist, but she objected to the way Fascists tried to "warp youth in their own brutal pattern." In 1933, her schools were closed...
Stature for Solemnity. The New Look does not imply sophistication. Says Oscar: "The sophisticates have let us down." The theme of Allegro is a simple, minor-key faith shared by many Americans: a kind of puzzled sympathy for the puzzled ("Poor Joe! The older you grow, the harder it is to know . . ."). Oscar is a sentimentalist who is repelled by the materialistic din of big city living. One lyric in Allegro says bitterly...
...morning a year ago when the VTW popped full-grown from the skulls of its progenitors. It all started when a galaxy of eager veterans poured back into the Dramatic Club roster last fall, ready for action but not for what they called a "tightly-knit social organization." The older men, among them pre-war HD members, set up their own "veterans' workshop" producing unit, chose a play, and were promptly read out of the club for "insubordination" by the insulted hierarchy. Pulling into their own back-yard, the veterans decided to carry the ball alone...