Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engagement Broken. Marion Dawes, daughter of President William R. Dawes of the Chicago Association of Commerce, and second cousin of U. S. Vice President Charles Gates Dawes; and one Gordon B. Bilderback of Champaign, 111.; by the elopement of Mr. Bilderback with one Gertrude Sergeant, elocution teacher, ten days before the date of the Dawes-Bil-derback marriage. Said Miss Dawes's family: "A regrettable incident-that...
...quarter centuries ago, a short, grotesque man, thicknecked and paunchy with flat nostrils and thick lips stood trial for his life. He had a shrill-tongued wife; by her, three "dull and fatuous" sons. His father was a sculptor, his mother a midwife. But he had been soldier, statesman, teacher; he was Socrates, the greatest liberal of his age. In Athens, 500 judges heard the accusations brought by Meletus, the poet; Anytus, the tanner; and Lycon, the orator. The accusation ran: "Socrates is guilty, firstly, of denying the gods recognized by the state and introducing new divinities, and, secondly...
...reign of virtue, but the force instead of being externally applied, as through law, is to be internally administered by means of education. The proposal in its concrete form, is a bill introduced in to the Nebraska State Legislature, by State Senator Allen S. Stinson, a former school teacher, providing for courses in "common honesty, morality, courtesy, obedience to law, respect to the flag, respect for parents and the home, and the dignity and necessity of honest labor," to be given in all the grade and high schools of the state. The standards which these courses are to meet...
...valuable from both a monetary and a sentimental standpoint ever to be abandoned. But they must be added to,--whether or not by such a method as that suggested above is no matter--if the coming generations are to be educated by an acceptable type of man, if a teacher is to live on as high an economic plane as a white wing...
...Laporte City, Iowa, one Albert Cole, cobbler-music teacher, dyed a pair of his own oxfords with an analine tint last week and at once took so long a walk that his feet perspired. Soon he developed a dizzy headache and felt sleepy. Local doctors found him dying, his entire body tinted a "brilliant blue, as though it had been painted." The theory was that the shoe dye had colored him so. Really, the aniline in the dye had fixed itself onto the red corpuscles of the man's blood, as does carbon monoxide gas from motor car exhausts...