Word: schoolroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mike is a skinny little boy of six, but he strode confidently into the schoolroom on Chicago's North Shore, past half a hundred adults, and straight to the table up front. With the poise of a veteran performer, Mike perched himself on a stool next to Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, who asked simply: "Well, Mike, how do you feel?" The boy's answer came in a happy flood: "I have an alarm clock and I dress myself and my mommy loves me all the time...
...sudden spurts of violence, had put herself under the protection of Swiss police in the Palace Hotel at Montreux. Meanwhile, his 17-year-old son and heir Hussein, whom Talal had chased in frenzy from a bedroom in Paris two weeks ago, had returned to Britain and his Harrow schoolroom, to go back to his studies and to await the time when he himself might be called to Jordan's throne...
...last week occupied a table in an upstairs room of a 57th Street gallery. It was a polyptych of five small panels hinged together and somewhat pompously titled A Tribute to the American Working People. The four side panels represent a county fair, a parlor, a farm and a schoolroom, all crowded. The center panel portrays a workman with the expression of a weary Punch, standing before a green factory facade full of faces...
...years of its solitary reign, the little college in Cambridge, Massachusetts graduated such varied and influential men as Samuel Mather, Nathaniel Mather, Eleazar Mather, Warham Mather, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and one Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, an Indian who forsook the fresh air of Martha's Vineyard for the schoolroom and as a result died of tuberculosis a year after graduation...