Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...autumn of 1865, five months after General Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassination, that a not-very-prosperous school teacher from upstate New York packed his valise, boarded a train for Manhattan. The townsfolk of Clinton said Elihu Root would make a name for himself- was he not the son of a mathematics professor; was he not valedictorian of his graduating class at Hamilton College at the age of 19? Within a few years, he organized a law partnership of his own. Some people called Mr. Root a "crook lawyer." Mr. Root was not a crook...
...real acquaintance with solitude. Miss Gather is nearly 50 now; sociable when she likes; vigorous, cheerful, charming. But more and more she is a recluse who, having had experience as country girl (Nebraska), college girl (Nebraska State), reporter and editor (Pittsburgh Leader and McClure's Magazine), teacher and archaeologist, enough to "last a lifetime" is increasingly a subtle artist after the Wordsworth formula, "emotion recollected in tranquillity...
...somewhat appalled and asked the youth if they all went to school, and if they had a teacher. He bridled at this and said, Shore we got a teacher, his name's John McCormick...
...candidate is not a politician, but a onetime school teacher from downstate and a general secretary of the International Council of Religious Education. He believes in God, Abraham Lincoln (whom his father knew well), Calvin Coolidge, and the 18th Amendment...
...stage director who develops a raw girl (Billie Dove) into a great actress. He loses his position because the achievement has made his continued direction superfluous. Later it is revealed that he is quite necessary after all. The temperamental star can act only when she fancies her former teacher is present. The film has some good moments, but it seems woefully stupid to characterize the hero as the hypnotic control over an erotic heroine instead of the vital factor in her art. Warner Oland is back as the heavy cinema lago...