Word: plights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miserable Smart Children. How to deal with superior-minded school children is a mighty problem for mental hygienists. Dr. Leta Sletter Hollingworth of Columbia defined the smart child's plight. If he is kept in a grade with ordinary children his own age, he does his school work so swiftly that he must idle and daydream, bad habits both. If he is advanced to the grade of his intellectual equals, he is the baby of his class, kept out of games and parties, criticized by his teacher for manual and emotional immaturity. Gifted girls have the special problem of wanting...
...replied: "You want to lay something else on the bed!" Kalonika stole the helmet from Athena's head, concealing it beneath her gown. Miss Bainter: "Why, Kalonika, you weren't pregnant last night." Miss Hopkins: "But I didn't know it last night!" Indicative of the plight of the men was the piteous condition of Kinesias (Ernest Truex). He fidgeted, pranced and pleaded with tantalizing Miss Alden. He drove his spear into the ground, he waved his arms, he bellowed. But until peace was made, the women were adamant. Followed a jubilee, with dancers, music, lights...
Since his entry into the realm of light and "situation" comedy Mr. Dix is a much improved actor over the Dix of racing car melodramas. Tinged with a bit of Shavian deviltry the play depicts the plight of an electrician who for the sum of a few thousand dollars is willing to lower himself and become a gentleman. For some reason, and, she is fairly pleasant, he gets all mixed up in his singleness of purpose. The story ends happily, with Mr. Dix still an electrician. The picture is an amusing satire on the Ward McAllister type...
Like ants emerging from a wrecked sand hill, Chicago citizens twisted and wriggled themselves out of their white entombment, proclaimed their plight to the world. Street traffic stalled completely, until 20,000 shovelers dug narrow channels through the drifts. Schools all closed when attendance dropped to 20%. The snow even blanketed crime: not one case was docketed in Morals Court during the blizzard; only six robberies were reported to tho police. Abandoned automobiles along the streets were encased in soft bulgy white outlines. Railroad yards became chaotic as switches jammed. The Illinois Central put a long string of freight cars...
...results: Maximum degree of interest for nurses was 33%; for pedagogs, 19%. Lamented Professor Kitson: "Several stated bluntly that their interest was at the zero point. Such workers are in a most unhappy plight and constitute a serious menace to the effectiveness of their professional group...