Word: postman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September 1948, a tired-looking Denver postman stood in a grade-school principal's office and heard these words: "I'm sorry, but we simply don't have any place for your sons." To Joseph Vincent Calabrese the words were deadly familiar. For years he had searched for a school that would take his boys. The answer was always the same...
These tests are being directed by Jerome S. Bruner, Ph.D, '41, associate professor of Social Psychology, and Leo J. Postman, Ph.D. '46, assistant professor of Social Psychology...
...their rotund, accommodating little friends made their debut in March. Sailors on H.M.S. Ganges formed a Shmoo club, English farmers reported that hens were laying Shmoo-shaped eggs, and subscribers sent Shmoo-shaped potatoes. But the postman also brought a mailbag of protests. Reader R.E. Wilkinson thought Shmoos were definitely un-British. Wrote he: "The Shmoos are encouraging the very characteristics that are ruining this country ... lazy-mindedness and the deliberate pursuit of everything that is slovenly and American." A Mrs. Collins found the drawing "ridiculous" and the language "unintelligible...
Neither Rain, nor Snow. In Los Angeles, Postman William E. Lilley Jr., arrested for hiding almost 5,000 undelivered letters in his apartment, explained that "I would just get tired and take some letters home ... I fully intended to deliver them in the due course of time...
Extenuation. In St. Louis, Postman Fred Knussman pleaded guilty to destruction of mail, but pleaded that he burned letters only when his arthritis was bothering...