Word: spanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alexander Neill's father was a strict Scottish schoolmaster, who used to spank his children rather repetitiously. Young Neill developed a fear of his father that haunted him until early manhood. Years later, when he began studying child psychology, he decided to found a school of his own, to produce children who would go through life free from fear and who would never need to be psychoanalyzed. Last week, by special invitation, Headmaster Neill, 64, was in the U.S. to give a series of lectures to interested educators and parents on the psychological and educational theories of Alexander Neill...
...question was who should spank the child, mother or father? Said seven-year-old Maryann Maskey: "The mother should do it. She's home most of the time and knows the child really tried to do good-an', an', besides, she can spank more lighter than the father...
...other little angels just in back of school. I went out and thumped three of them. Fate at that moment sent the eighth-grade boys out to snowball the second-graders right under our noses. This is known as being On the Spot. "Oh yeah," my children say, "you spank us little guys but you don't dare touch the big ones!" "Oh, don't I?" says I. I went out and politely told the big boys that they knew the rules. Whereupon they threw some more snowballs, including a few in my direction. I chose the biggest...
...their dander up. For 29 years they had played second fiddle to Dartmouth. They practiced long and hard, sometimes at night, on Mount Royal's icy slopes. By last week, as one of eleven competing teams at Dartmouth's own Winter Carnival, they were ready to spank Dartmouth where it hurt most...
...adventures excited them so that they didn't realize they were having an adventure in race relations. That night eleven-year-old Fred Buker, who is white, and his roommate, Bobby Paige, who is black, had so much to talk about that Bobby's aunt threatened to spank them both if they didn't get to sleep...