Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great teacher, and always a man of immense activity. After he lost his eyesight, readers kept him abreast of developments in learning and literature. He was an insatiable reader in other languages than that which he taught. In his last year someone heard him recite practically the whole of Faust in German, and one of his former students says that he learned more about Latin, German, Italian and French from Professor Gildersleeve than he learned from his Latin, German, Italian and French teachers. Latterly, he amused and occupied himself by writing sonnets reminiscent of his early life...
Premier: Viscount Kiego Kiyoura, aged 73, who started his career as a school teacher, accepted a Government clerkship, became successively head of several important Government departments. In 1902 he received a barony for his services in promoting the Anglo-Japanese treaty. Since 1917 he has been a Viscount and head of the Privy Council...
...KING VERSUS WARGRAVE-J. S. Fletcher - Knopf ($2.00). Marco Graffi, teacher of languages, one November morning was found stabbed to the heart in his London flat. Beautiful Gemma Graffi, living with him as his granddaughter, had vanished. A verdict of willful murder was brought against her by a coroner's jury. Our hero, Adrian Graye, medical student, who happened along in the fog at the psychological moment, nevertheless believed her innocent. So did John Wirlescombe, noted detective. All of which made things interesting when the missing Gemma turned up again seven years later as Lady Wargrave, widow...
Professor von Schulze-Gaevernitz, besides being a distinguished author and teacher, has long been prominent in German political life. He was one of the leading spirits in the drafting of the present Republican constitution, and has for years been a member of the Reichstag. During the war, he was one of the first men to criticise the U-boat warfare and the military police of his country, and his conduct brought upon him severe attacks from Ludendorff and other military leaders. He was one of the leaders of the old "Progressive Popular" party, which opposed Socialism but at the same...
...Courtship of Miles Standish. The casual and the captious witness will be decidedly at odds over this portion of Puritan romance. The former, vaguely recalling the sugar coated capsule fed him by a forgotten history teacher, will go in and out delightedly. The latter, unwilling to be betrayed into a display of unpremeditated emotion, will seek feverishly for flaws. Of these there seems to be an abundance. The scenes were rather obviously made in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a Hollywood studio. Priscilla is played by Enid Bennett in her best molasses manner. Even the captious, however, must assent...