Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guyda has a fair bench to draw upon. "Up and coming players," as he describes them, include halfbacks Dick Dexter and Bob Leary, and an aggressive fullback, Craig Jennings. He has a "good pupil" in James Pates, who is new to the game, and a promising halfback in Oliver Wadsworth, who has a good kick, but sometimes "fades" when about to tackle...
...allowed to peck out scales with his nose, or play a piece blindfolded, or standing on one leg. Gabriel students also play musical Truth or Consequences, in which one penalty is standing on the head to sing God Bless America. Gabriel sometimes reverses the lesson, plays student to the pupil's teacher. Says he: "It purges the kid of hostility...
Pygmalion-Shaw continued to hack away at his Galatea until Ava had what amounted to a nervous breakdown, went to a psychoanalyst. When Shaw finally decided that Ava was not a promising pupil, Ava acknowledged the breakup with the classically laconic comment: "He told me to leave, so I left...
...cities (pop. over 100,000) were spending $246.71 a year per public-school pupil-a rise of more than 90% since...
...went to Irene Williams, a former operatic singer, who gave him a lesson every other day for two years. Teacher Williams, who is now suing Lanza for breach of contract, was convinced that he had great possibilities, but she found him a lazy pupil, unwilling to train seriously. Since his mother had to get up at 5:30 a.m. to go to work, Freddy's father would serve him breakfast in bed. "Sometimes," recalls the teacher, "he'd be barely awake when he came for his lesson at 2 in the afternoon. I used to chide...