Word: stoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, one Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr.* permitted herself to be interviewed by newspaper reporters about a book she was just completing to set forth the "unquestionably" evil influence exerted by popular nursery jingles upon infant minds. Mother Goose† herself was the object of Mrs. Stoner's determined attack and the reporters were told, in no uncertain tones, that...
...beat And Tom went howling down the street-is obviously "bad grammar, bad morals." I chiefly object," said earnest Mrs. Stoner "to teaching children such nonsense because it misrepresents life. . . . It is not only criminal to do so but it helps to make criminals of children." Then, to show that she was not merely a destructive critic, Mrs. Stoner recited one of the numerous "jingle facts" that she has written in the hope of ousting Mother Goose...
...after the Stoner interview appeared, one Kitty Cheatham* purchased four full columns of advertising space in another newspaper. Kitty Cheatham was bound that Mrs. Stoner should not enjoy exclusive credit for the great Mother Goose expose. Kitty Cheatham wrote in her large advertisement...
...Perhaps Mrs. Stoner does not know that this idea ... is not new, but has been radically advanced, logically analyzed and fearlessly uprooted in an illuminating children's book entitled Greetings and a Message to the Dear Children, by Augusta E. Stetson, C.S.D. (Doctor of Christian Science). ... In this lovely book, the author . . . enables a child to think intelligently, in response to the law of God, or Spirit...
...four entrants set off, at intervals of 10 seconds, to fly the Pulitzer speed test. The Navy, winner last year, went unrepresented, having had no appropriation from Congress. Lieut. W. H. Mills in a Verville-Sperry racer, Lieut. W. H. Brookley in a Curtiss R-6, and Lieut. Rex Stoner in a Curtiss PW-8-A were the first three to fly to a point ten miles behind the start and ascend in the customary "tower" from which the racers plunge down to the starting pylon at maximum speed. Last to leave the ground was Captain Burt E. Skeel...