Word: scarborough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Should boys-even little boys-be taught by women? No, said Britain's National Association of Schoolmasters, whose members teach in local council and church schools. At Scarborough last week, the schoolmasters unanimously agreed that teaching was "man's work," and called for a law to abolish schoolmarms. Grumped Schoolmaster D. N. Thomas: "These avaricious hordes of women already have staked a claim in our field, and the sooner they are smoked out, the better it will be for the boys of this country...
Candidates: Dewey George Archambault, Jr., Blair Morton Boyd, Jr., John Bertrand Cadigan, Jr., John Edwin Carlson, Jr., Thomas Henry Collins, Walter Coulson, Frederick Deane, Jr., John Morton Dunn, Weston Joseph Durant, Robert Scarborough Erakine, Jr., Allan Sulyard Garon, Charles Nelson Gregg, Jr., Peter Green Harwood, Harry, Peter Haveles...
...Britain's fields, like the others, were pungent with the smell of freshly plowed earth. In Kew Gardens photographers snapped pictures of rhododendrons in bloom five weeks before their time. Here & there, jokers were at work. Enthusiastic residents of Scarborough, in a frenzy of excitement over the notes of the first cuckoo, were crestfallen to discover that the trills of good cheer actually came from a toothless street cleaner named Hezekiah Johnson. "I wait until a crowd gathers," admitted Johnson. "Then I go into a nearby park and cuckoo. They all take it in. I used...
Arthur J. Boncot '49 of Leverett House and Germantown, Pa., and Peter B. Roll '48 of Lowell House and Scarborough, N. Y., will join 72-year old McMillan and his crew of 14 in the northern track to chart the seaward move of four massive glaciers which end in Baffin...
Psittacosis and Circus Clowns. Periodically, Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell visited their fabulously wealthy grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Londes-borough. When the Earl went bathing, a mile of red carpet was laid down from his Scarborough villa to the sea. When he inherited his estate, he promptly gave all his chief servants checkbooks "so that they could draw on his funds . . . without worrying him." An excessive fondness for parrots caused the Earl's death (in 1900, from psittacosis). His hawk-faced wife, who once caused Napoleon III to burn with a hard gemlike flame, ran Londes-borough Lodge...