Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father of Progressive Education, but actually he was neither its first philosopher nor its first schoolmaster. First great modern philosopher was Rousseau, who, in Emile (1762), advocated a child-centred school. First Progressive-school system in the U. S. was started in 1875 by the late Colonel Francis Wayland Parker in Quincy, Mass. Last week in Manhattan was celebrated the Goth anniversary of the second, the Ethical Culture School, founded in 1878 by Felix Adler...
...town resembling Emporia, Kans., takes up residence in the county jail at the invitation of the kind-hearted constable (Irvin S. Cobb). Finding confusion in the affairs of the town newspaper run by Martha Allen (Fay Bainter), he ends it by putting things right between Judy (Jean Parker) and her hotheaded boy friend (John Beal), unmasking the town crook (Lyle Talbot) and building a radio station. Principal cinema attribute of the late Will Rogers was to make it seem that Right not only triumphed on all occasions but that it did so without working up a perspiration. Strict adherence...
...first half of the 19th Century, when such men as Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, Preacher Theodore Parker and Pundit Bronson Alcott were generating a whole kaleidoscope of intellectual sparks, Boston was in truth the cultural powerhouse of the U.S. Since then Boston's cultural graph has shown, a decline. Her writers and painters, once the most pioneering, are now for the most part complacent. But to the Back Bay Brahmins Boston's past glories are still present, her old-fashioned way of life still sacredly up-to-date...
...Flesh wounds are frequently inflicted. Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters') did not know that "rubeola" means measles. Economist Stuart Chase did not know that ''multiple shops" is British for chain stores. F.P.A. attributed some of his own verses to Dorothy Parker...
...Boston's Parker House was the scene of the rally and smoker for alumni of the Cayuga college. "Cornell-eeeeyell-eeeyell-eeeyell" was the cheer that came from several hundred Ithacan throats as the Red rooters heard speeches from their coach, Carl Snavely, Richard C. Floyd '11, head of the Varsity Club, and Dick Harlow...