Word: school
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin the six weeks' course at the Nazi Party School for Brides was cut to four weeks and any German recruit was permitted to marry without the usual lengthy investigation of his race and ancestry on simple presentation of his mobilization card. To keep open as many hospital beds as possible for wounded soldiers, German doctors were ordered to deliver pregnant women at home rather than in hospitals for the duration of the war, except desperate cases of obstetric complications...
...sinking, but it was not all for many a skipper who must continue to dodge mines, many an unsung hero who must sow them, many an even braver man who must sweep them to make way for men o' war, transports, supply ships. Technique learned in the bitter school of 1914-18 is now in full play on both sides of World...
...They Wanted is sometimes awkward, fumbling, slow-moving; and the present production brings out the worst in it. Where the original company gave it the lift that a fine orchestra can give to a fairly good piece of music, the present company gives it the drubbing of a high-school band. Pathetic gags meant to reveal the simple natures of the characters are played for comedy lines. June Walker is a likable if unimpressive heroine, but Giuseppe Sterni's only virtue is his authentic Italian accent, and the Napa Valley is not the part of California where Cinemactor Douglass...
...Yale's Law School grabbed the most famed Rhodes Scholar, Colorado's All-America halfback Byron ("Whizzer") White...
Irene Castle McLaughlin, longtime plaintiff in a divorce suit against Major Frederic McLaughlin, petitioned that their daughter Barbara, 14, be removed from Ferry Hall school in Lake Forest, Ill. (Alma Mater of Jean Harlow), transferred to an eastern school. She testified: "I visited Ferry Hall last spring and was disappointed by the class of girls there. Some of them dyed their hair. . . . One day recently, I asked Barbara to come and see me and she said she couldn't because they were going to have steak for dinner." Steak or no steak, the court ruled that Barbara should stay...