Word: rotarianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never seen Dave Beck before were a little startled, not only by his mild and self-effacing performance, but by his personal appearance. His quiet, expensive clothes, his full-toothed smile, his bland face, his high-pitched, almost boyish voice, gave him the aura of a super-Rotarian booster right out of Main Street. But his eyes-cold, blue and direct-explained him more fully...
...first seven arrived by bus at Fort Dix, N.J., the Army seemed almost startled by its own Rotarian effusiveness. Cameras flashed, and a lieutenant colonel stepped forward to bid the thunderstruck youths a warm but manly welcome. Then noncoms, who seemed to have gone through some defanging process, took them gently in tow, and ordered them to write letters home...
Could 90% Rotarian Ernest Hemingway be sheep in wolf clothing...
Chicago's new superintendent of schools is a genial Rotarian with a glad hand and a quick mind, who has run Kansas City's schools for the past seven years. He also heads the American Association of School Administrators. A preacher at heart, Episcopalian Herold Hunt likes to fill in for vacationing ministers (he always draws a big crowd), often preaches to his teachers, too ("Don't be a grouch, avoid the 'little God' complex"). But Kansas City teachers remember him with affection: he got more money for his teachers than any man before...
...ample although she has some trouble getting the washtub, when it is full, down off the barrel. 'I slop out a lot,' says Lena." "Somebody Loses." The characters in Chet Shafer's guileless anthology are seldom the local boys who made good. Some of his Rotarian fellow townsmen, who dislike his stuff because it makes Three Rivers out to be the queen of hick towns, have on occasion asked the Journal to throw him out. Chet dislikes them just as much. Says he: "Rotary ruins little towns like this. Gives them big-town ideas. Commerce! Progress! Whenever...