Word: school
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today slim, bald, horn-tufted with white wool like an Uncle Tom in business clothes, he has one son who is an African Methodist Episcopal bishop in Capetown, South Africa, another who is a physician, a daughter who is a St. Louis high-school teacher. His third son is a cashier in his father's bank, and another of his five daughters is a teller...
...British cinemagoers are still being moved to smiles & tears by the smile-&-tear jerker, Goodbye, Mr. Chips. The school pictured in the film is Repton, a famed public school in Britain's Derbyshire. Repton's boys (200 of whom played in the film) are shown in their uniforms of black tailcoats or jackets, striped trousers, starched turnover collars and black ties. Last fortnight, having thus made his school's dress almost as familiar to the public as the Eton jacket, Repton's 40-year-old headmaster, Harold George Michael Clarke, made a surprise announcement...
Headmaster Clarke said he had made up his mind to this revolutionary step several years ago, when he learned that Repton boys, to escape townee snickers when they left the school grounds, enveloped themselves in mackintoshes even on the hottest days. Repton's new uniform, still to be designed, will be "made up so as to allow greater freedom and less to divide the Reptonian from his fellow countrymen...
...told by Dr. George Willard Frasier, president of Colorado State College of Education, that old-age pensions were robbing youth of school funds...
...Elected as its new president plump, energetic Miss Amy Henrietta Hinrichs, a New Orleans elementary-school principal. A longtime English teacher, Miss Hinrichs shudders at misplaced punctuation marks and bad grammar. Among the first to congratulate President-elect Hinrichs were Louisiana's new Governor and Mrs. Earl Long. They wired: "All Louisiana is proud of you. Come and see us when you get home...