Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kersey, who bubbles in a hyphenated language of his own, told his school principals that he proposed to make his students "the most health-adequate youth in America." He ordered a physical checkup of Los Angeles' 10,000 high-school seniors, directed that every senior must be in shipshape condition when he graduates in June. Needy students will get free medical and dental treatment. Seniors who qualify will get a certificate of fitness; those who remain unfit through their own fault will be flunked in physical education, may thereby fail to graduate...
Class Day this June will be advanced from its traditional date immediately preceding Commencement to June 6 and 7, the two days directly following the last of final exams, Senior Spread will be held on Monday evening, June...
Richard G. Pflster '42, chairman of the Senior Class Day Committee, explained last night that this variance from custom was made to conform with the entire shifting of Commencement exercises because of the stringencies...
...three senior commanders under General MacArthur, two were Americans: Lieut. General George H. Brett, a veteran of Java, in charge of the air, and Rear Admiral Herbert F. Leary, in command at sea. Third in the top triumvirate was General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, commanding all ground forces. Blue-eyed, 58-year-old General Blarney had just returned from the Middle East, bringing with him a big part of the Australian Imperial Force which had fought in Greece, Crete and Libya...
Though there are about 50 to 100 show-girl "hostesses" a night, there are also an increasing number of "senior hostesses" (older actresses like Antoinette Perry and Constance Collier), because the Canteen has found that lots of the kids are skirt-shy, only feel at home with substitutes for Mother. For all hostesses there are two ironclad rules: They must be members of the entertainment professions (or the daughter or wife of a member), and they may not leave the place with a service...