Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effeminate efficiency to an entertaining attitude of merrily-we-go-to-hell-the-fake-is-falling-through, singing and dancing to "The Darng Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" en route. In the end, of course, the fake does not fall through. Bittlesby is gotten by stenographer who will teach him things, and Stringer gets the girl (Louise Kirtland)--and there, gentlemen, he has something, for Miss Kirtland is a charming ingenue and something to look...
...come from practice in public speaking, and in the long run the student will probably find them of more value than the history of the novel. English F should be bolstered by two regular half courses, one open to Freshmen in the primary tricks of speaking, and one to teach the advance principles. There is an ancient bogey that such courses would be "snaps", arising from the department's distrust of its own ability to enforce strict standards. It would not stand in the way of a reasonable, sensible arrangement towards producing...
Irked when her fiancé laughs at her inability to do winter sports, the heroine .Hella Hartwich) goes to St. Moritz to learn. There she encounters two ski-larking jacks-of-all-trades (tall Walter Riml, tiny Guzzi Lantschner) who teach her to ski in the intervals when they are not clowning on skates or escaping from the local policeman. Becoming superbly skillful almost overnight, the heroine dresses as a man, shows up her fiance by beating him in the skijoring and bobsled races I hen he recognizes her, leads her astray m the slalom to a ski wedding with...
...goat-herder, owns the biggest house in the village (13 rooms, two baths), which he built largely with his own hands. He supports the village band, its school, its hospital and, indirectly, its whole population. In 1930, Hannes Schneider visited Japan for one month at $10,000 to teach its royal family, army officers and students how to ski. This year, two of his St. Anton assistants-Benno Rybiczka and Otto Lang-will start U. S. branches of the Arlberg Ski School at Jackson, N. H., Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainier, in Washington. Still raging among expert skiers...
First attempt to teach schoolmen radio technique was made by Ohio State Uni-versity which since 1928 has had a workshop for radio broadcasting. Last week the Conference had news of a novel organization called University Broadcasting Council. Set up in Chicago two years ago by the University of Chicago's Radio Director Allen Miller, the Council helps educators from Chicago, Northwestern and DePaul universities not only to solicit radio time and to split the expenses of broadcasting but also to write good scripts. With a $55,000 budget, Director Miller reported, the Council had provided its members with...