Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...self-importance instead of with bread. When Hitler left Geneva he aroused his people to unknown heights of excitement, and gave them that wonderful feeling of having told someone where to "get off". Mussolini is now playing that same old weather-beaten trump and hopes to reap the same reward...
...every bit as big and rugged and impressive-looking as Republican Steiwer. By coming out early for Franklin Roosevelt, Kentucky's Alben William Barkley got the post of keynoter at the Democratic convention in 1932. By unwavering loyalty to the New Deal, Senator Barkley won the same reward this year. He cannot, however, rehash the same speech. Denouncing and deploring four years ago, he will this year have to commend and indorse...
Honors. Outside of purely commercial distinctions, Shirley Temple has received almost every available reward of fame except an honorary college degree, which she may well get next June. She is Captain of the Texas Rangers, an Honorary Chair man of the Be Kind to Animals Anniversary Week and a Kentucky Colonel. Her offices are not limited to the U. S. She is president of the Chum's Club of Scotland (400,000) and of the Kiddies Club of England. The 165,000 moppet members of the latter swear to imitate her character, conduct and manners. Possibly the smallest...
...theory, men are engaged for their teaching ability and their qualifications as research men. Actually, if a man has any teaching ability to begin with, he had best smother it at once if he expects to linger here much more than a year. Promotions come not as a reward for conscientious or even brilliant teaching, but as a guerdon for advancing the cause of science...
...four excited, rosy-faced boys from Valley Forge Military Academy boarded one of TWA's Douglas airliners at Camden, N. J. one morning last week. They were going to homes in & around Pittsburgh for Easter vacation. One had been given the air trip by his parents as a reward for high marks. Also on board was Mrs. Meyer C. Ellenstein, wife of the Mayor of Newark, bound for St. Louis to visit a daughter. The plane's hostess was a neat, slight, dark girl of 22 named Nellie Granger. The chief pilot, Otto Ferguson, had been flying since...