Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Redefer went into the field, organized regional conferences for teachers. Unlike the usual cut & dried educational convention, but alive with questions and informal discussion in which everyone takes part, these conferences today draw 5,000 teachers and parents at a sitting...
...Progressive school, children also spend part of their time dancing, singing, making musical instruments, telling stories. Instead of doing calisthenics, they play games. Result of all this is that a modern Progressive school is noisy, apparently chaotic, but pupils are too busy to be naughty. When they are naughty or sulky, they are sent not to a be-ferruled principal but to a psychiatrist, who tries to find out what is wrong at home...
...thoughtful citizens Mr. Devree's alternative remedy seemed more sensible: unworried self-limitation and severity on the part of reviewers. Last week there were about 80 exhibitions of painting, sculpture and graphic arts in Manhattan, of which just one newcomer demanded serious discrimination. This was a collection of drawings and paintings by a 27-year-old Milwaukee painter named Paul Lewis Clemens, announced with some fanfare as a "discovery" of University of Wisconsin's resident-artist, John Steuart Curry...
Bohemia, the Czech part of the Republic, will have 140 seats in the Assembly, Slovakia 50, Ruthenia ten. In the Senate the three States will have equal strength, eight seats each. A hyphen will probably be inserted into Czechoslovakia, making it "CzechoSlovakia" according to Prague dispatches, but the Ruthenians want the Republic's name changed to "The State of Czechs, Slovaks and Ruthenians." Other proposed names with important backing this week: "Western Slavia"; "Central Slavia"; "Slavia...
After the War, Burns and bazooka toured in smalltime vaudeville for ten years, rose to the height of running his own carnival show. In 1930, when vaudeville collapsed, Burns tried radio and pictures. Finally Rudy Vallee gave him a part on his program. Burns was a hit and his income thereafter zoomed. As estimated for tax collectors, it was $1,500 in 1934, $9,000 in 1935, $100,000 in 1936 and $400,000 last year, when he not only played second leads in Paramount pictures but shared top honors with Bing Crosby on Kraft Cheese broadcasts and wrote syndicated...