Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week in Philadelphia was a convenient 236-page treatise, Algebra for Parents* calculated to save elders considerable embarrassment when asked to explain anything from simple addition to the binomial theorem. It was as ingratiating, discursive, and adroit as its author, a 59-year-old Philadelphia lawyer named Samuel Bryan Scott...
Philadelphians know tall, grey Lawyer Scott as the senior partner in the firm of Scott & Burton, a specialist in real-estate practice, the onetime (1907-15) independent Republican floor leader in the Pennsylvania Legislature. His neighbors in Chestnut Hill know him as just the kind of devoted father who takes naturally to doing homework. More than two decades ago Lawyer Scott began answering questions for his daughters Nor (Eleanor), Winkie (Sylvia) and Net (Henrietta), soon extended his advice and counsel to his nephews, Edward and William McKendree Scott Jr. When they were very small, Lawyer Scott taught them to count...
...Author Scott explains that he wrote Algebra for Parents because "ordinary school books are written to be used under a teacher. If a parent is moved to bone up on the subject, he is repelled by the usual textbook . . . seldom more than a skeleton of instruction and a mass of exercises." Although professional textbook writers may accuse Author Scott of oversimplification-trigonometry is covered in 17 pages-he tested his explanations by solving correctly all the College Board algebra examinations from 1916 to 1931. Says Lawyer Scott: "Teaching is a profession and everyone magnifies his own profession...
...Lawyer Scott attributes his own intellectual self-reliance from his early badgering of his teachers at Princeton, where he graduated in 1909. One day when he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School he tried to get into a football game free by offering to play any instrument in the band which lacked a player. He was handed an E-flat tuba with the music for Hail Pennsylvania in another key, and transposed it by reading the bass clef as the treble and subtracting the proper number of flats, later working out an explanatory equation. Today Lawyer...
High, Wide and Handsome (Paramount). The night in 1859 that Peter Cortlandt (Randolph Scott) takes his grandmother down to Titusville, Pa. to see a medicine show, the show-wagon burns and they take the proprietor's daughter back to their farm. Pretty Sally Watterson (Irene Dunne) is a great help around the barnyard. It takes her longer than it should to make Peter propose but that is because Peter is a trifle backward. Eventually they marry and plan a house on the hill above the cow pasture. All this, told with a maximum of apple-blossoms, old songs...