Word: pensioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deteriorate . . . her work was both technically and temperamentally unsound. . . ." Said William J. O'Shea, Superintendent of Schools: "The least we could do for Miss Byrne was to give her a chance to recover. When she did not recuperate quickly it was suggested to her that she retire on pension. That she refused to do. Finally, in October, the Board of Education recommended to the Teachers Retirement Board that she be placed on pension. The matter is now before that board. It is unfortunate, and I wish we could do more...
...in? will give it to them. He lops off a side of Mrs. Daisy Bowman's (Mary Boland) boarding house, where rents are low and hard to collect, to reveal a perfect spawn of loves and murders. Three rooms give on the sitting-room of this squalid pension, each of which by itself is a cell of drama. Many more embryo plots sneak in through the front door, the back door, down the stairway, or just happen in the alleyway outside. They tangle themselves into a swarm of ugly, writhing life, sticky and sordid, grimy with bitter wisecracks and cruelly...
...work which the club will sing at the annual Symphony Hall Pension Fund Concert in the spring will be "Le Roi David" a dramatic psalm by the French composer Arthur Honegger...
...that he make a fortune in cinema or vaudeville, while the making is good. Following this course, Captain Lindbergh could easily put away a nest egg of $1,000,000 within a year. Will Rogers, funnyman and newspaper philosopher, suggests that the U. S. Government give him a life pension and a high position in the aviation service. Others believe that he should glorify the U. S. by new exploits, flights to Australia, to the South Pole, around the world...
...Clergy Pensions. Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays, who headed a committee to gather $15,000,000 last year for a ministers' pension fund, announced fruition of his campaign; was visibly moved at the earnestness of applause accorded...