Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albert L. Reeves Jr., 40, tall, solemn, Kansas City, Mo. Republican who trounced Enos A. Axtell, the Pendergast candidate raised to temporary notoriety by Harry Truman's endorsement last summer. An ex-lieutenant colonel of engineers and onetime speech teacher at Texas' Baylor University, Al Reeves is the son of a famed federal judge who indicted scores of Pendergast lieutenants for election fraud...
...film and slump ignominiously to the ground, thereby embarrassing Miss McDuff only one quarter as much as all unsuspecting males in the audience. Miss McDuff's drawers become so excruciatingly annoying that at last debacle, when the sweet young thing is dancing in the arms of the handsome teacher at the Senior Ball, and the blasted things come loose for the last time, several unhappy swains in the audience were seen to blush crimson, cry out and run from the theatre...
...Down, Sing Down. Helen's mother, something of a local concert singer herself, sent 13-year-old Helen to a friend of her own childhood, Madame Vetta Karst, the most exacting voice teacher in St. Louis. A birdlike little woman with an uncontrollable temper, Madame Karst screeched and nagged, threw pillows at her pupils. One day Helen sobbed, "I can never satisfy you!" "When you can satisfy me you won't need me any more," snapped Madame Karst. She taught Traubel to sing "down" so her tones would go over; to drop her jaw as far as possible...
...month Helen Traubel paid Madame Karst $5 for each lesson. After that the teacher refused to take any pay, though Helen went to her almost daily for 17 years. Says Helen: "That was her way of controlling me. She was a damned intelligent teacher." Madame Karst, still giving lessons today at 85, says that Traubel always "sang as if she were alone in the room...
...yolk, casein, fig milk, wax soap and Duco automobile enamel. Zerbe got around to encaustic six years ago. He liked its fast-drying, refulgent surface. In 1934 Zerbe moved to the U.S.-out of Hitler's way. The Boston Museum school of art made him a teacher...