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...they still use the concept as a standard. Much of the debate about the Evanses' book will swirl around the two obvious questions raised by their definition of respectable English: Who are the educated people, and what precisely do they say and write when they are minding their Ps...
...education which family life in this country too seldom offers. "The American father is under a terrific strain to keep up with the high standard of living. Fathers here work too hard. They haven't time to teach their children, to show them a book of Conama paintings, as ps outs can in the more leisurely life of Eu ope. The college here must waken up the student to the basic appreciation of arts which make for greater enjoyment in life...
This season some 2,000 U.S. cities and towns, with audiences totaling close to 3,000,000 people, have bought their music on the painless, pay-as-you-go packaging basis known as the "organized-audience plan." Two giant A & Ps of music, Community Concert Service and Civic Concert Service, handle 90% of the bookings; some 2,500 artists, separately, in ensembles and in orchestras, crisscross the nation to serve up the music...
...gotten most of his ideas on this subject from a comic book whose hero was Uncle Sam. The book said that Uncle Sam was happy because he was free to go around and "lip off" about anything he pleased, because "he didn't have to mind his Ps...
...manpower trade, she learned her ABCs and minded her Ps & Qs in the early alphabetical New Deal days of NRA, WPA and the Social Security Board. At one point she was so busy that she was known as "Seven-Job Anna." As New York regional director of the War Manpower Commission in World War II, she evolved "the Buffalo Plan," juggling manpower on the basis of priorities, which was copied across the U.S. An ardent supporter of Fiorello La Guardia, and like him, volatile, unpredictable and tireless, she can be coy as Bo-Peep or brassy as Sergeant Quirt. Running...