Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impending trial at Dayton, Tenn., of Teacher John T. Scopes for giving instruction in Evolution, contrary to a state law, continued to clutter the press with reiteration of the issues at stake, which adherents of both sides of the case stoutly believed would "educate" the public up to the grave importance of the trial and its everlasting effect upon U. S. pedagogy, science, morals, history, religion...
...Prosecutor" White was taken aback when Teacher Scopes, returning in a daze from a visit with his counsel in Manhattan (TiME, June 22), asked that his post in the Rhea County High School be given him again next fall. Teacher Scopes entered into the spirit of the trial sufficiently to let Sheriff R. B. Harris formally serve his indictment in front of the drug store where the conversation that led to the test suit was held. Press cameras clicked and "Prosecutor" White & Co. were busier than ever sending out the results...
...Making of O'Malley. Milton Sills in the absolutely original part of a New York policeman, whose courage is equalled only by his tenderness for small children. He saves a crippled child, woos a pretty school teacher-a society girl with a lost taste for dances and teas-catches the wicked bootleggers in an exhibition of acrobatic agility, comes under a shadow in which he loses his star, and otherwise goes direct to the deepest emotions of an unsophisticated soul...
Then there was a banquet, at which Teacher Scopes stammered a few embarrassed words and the important lawyers indulged in brilliant jocularities. Scopes left for Dayton, leaving his friends to allege that he had refused syndicate offers aggregating $150,000, had refused to be pointed out, as most celebrities long to be, to a Ziegfeld Follies audience by Cowboy Comedian Will Rogers...
...Chicago, it was announced that A Civic Biology, one of the text books containing an unBiblical account of the creation for the use of which Teacher Scopes was arrested to test the Tennessee law, had been placed on the reading list of that city's high and junior high schools...