Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were the products of Senator Tenney's state committee on un-American activities. Among other things, they would have made it a misdemeanor "to teach any system or plan of government except the American system upon any state school property or to inculcate preference in the mind of any pupil for any such system...
Back in the days when Jean Georges Noverre, one of the grandfathers of ballet, was writing his famous Lettres sur la Danse (1760), Copenhagen's Royal Danish Ballet was just ten years old. But under a Noverre pupil named Antoine Bournonville and his son Auguste, the Danes learned so well that their company soon became one of the best in Europe. Last week Denmark's 200-year-old Royal Ballet, which now bows only to England's crack Sadler's Wells Company in Western Europe, was putting on a special 14-night summer festival. Danish balletomanes...
...Oubaas (Old Master) was 80 last week. Nothing showed Jan Christian Smuts's continued influence more vividly than the way his enemies tried to spoil the party. But not even his former pupil and now bitterest rival, Premier Daniel Malan, could prevent Smuts's having the most rousing reception of a long life...
...afford to remain amateurs," said their father, David Bauer, who seven years ago gave up his regular job as an Aberdeen, S. Dak. golf pro to give full time to his daughters. U.S.G.A. and financial pressure had forced him to make the decision before Marlene, his most promising pupil, had another chance at the women's amateur title (she was put out in the semifinals last fall). Marlene had been named Woman Athlete of the Year for 1949 in an Associated Press poll, and the girls had dominated the winter circuit, but the next meal was getting...
...Swot. "Slang," decides Marples, "is a form of youthful ebullience," and nothing, no matter how sacred, is safe from its inventiveness. At Oxford and Cambridge, short academic gowns have been known as rags or cover-arses, bum-curtains or tail-curtains. In the 17th Century, venerable dons were called pupil-mongers, and in the 18th they were gerund-grinders. The heads of colleges were skulls ("a skull being an ancient and desiccated head"), and their meeting place was Golgotha...