Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the story, which is divided, epically enough, into nine books, the author is striving for the "epic note." He makes the wife of a poor Jewish teacher in Russia in 1840 cry out: "Let us cry woe! Why should a father say that of his only son?" Then the tale moves swiftly through generations down to Arthur Levy, intelligent psychiatrist, in contemporary U. S. Mr. Levy marries a Christian woman, has a child by her. But he is troubled about his race, hurt by the slurs of Nordics; so he finally leaves his family to go on a Jewish...
...completely fathom, and which, by 1833 no longer admired his wise fancies & eccentric conceits as it had done before his belligerent sojourn in Greece. But his brief and comfortable enchantment was shattered by the arrival of Clara Hunting's sons, together with Mr. Hodge, their tutor. He, a teacher of mathematics, resented the untidy brilliance of Mr. Hazard; his resentment was effective. Mr. Hazard felt himself compelled to resume elsewhere his pursuit of peace, a pursuit always profitless in this dusty world for one like Mr. Hazard, who, fierce, bewildered, and alone, was not entirely its inhabitant...
...eleven Aaron Burr recommended the Arabian Nights to him. When he was thirteen Samuel Clemens told him of a Quaker preacher he had exhumed to make a death mask. Whitman shook again. By the time he was twenty he had successively been a typographer, reporter, editor, carpenter, novelist, teacher. A few months on a job and he shuffled off to another. He had such...
...Sheldon of the Noble and Greenough School died last night at his home in Boston. His death came as a distinct shock to the School as he has been a teacher there for over ten years...
...Harvard man. He is a brilliant scholar, and has produced several books in which he has shown in addition to his rare scholarship, an unusual taste and appreciation for fine literature. He is a gentleman, a quality of which few of us boast nowadays. And he is an excellent teacher for those who have the ability and desire to learn...