Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as French schools opened for the fall term, only 22 Ifs pupils showed up. The rest were out on a parent-instigated strike. Petitions were sent to the District Inspector of Education in Caen and even to the Ministry in Paris. Farmers and aproned mothers paraded the streets with placards denouncing the headmaster as a "solid...
...life. For the past twelve years home has been a small four-room apartment-office, living room, two bedrooms and kitchenette-in Manhattan's Delmonico Hotel on Park Avenue. Last year Ed bought a 2OO-acre dairy farm in Southbury, Conn., where he can occasionally relax, as fond parent and grandfather, with his 24-year-old daughter Betty and her two children (Robert Edward, 1½, and Carla Elizabeth, 3 weeks), while Betty's husband, Lieut, (j.g.) Robert Precht Jr., is on a tour of sea duty...
According to the script, Captain McConnell (played with rubbery insensitivity by Alan Ladd) was emotionally the sort of cheerful Neanderthal who proposed to his wife at a prizefight, called her "Butch," and treated her like a meddling parent that he continually had to outwit. The wife (played by June Allyson, who has recently provided the ball-and-chain for almost every picture she appears in) is presented in turn as a relentless good sport who makes her home in one plywood horror after another, spends half her time in heart-rending goodbyes, and keeps muttering sub-hysterically, "Sweetheart...
Last week Secretary Thomas, after talking to Landy and making a personal "common sense evaluation," announced his own findings: Landy's association with his Communist parent was "the natural relationship of mother and son and not a sympathetic association with her political beliefs...
...singers for possible future membership in the Club and to allow more students--particularly freshmen--to participate in an organized chorus. The venture proved successful. With more than 100 freshmen singing regularly, the new chorus completed a full schedule of concerts with virtually no financial loss to its parent organization...