Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Sun Fo sent China's highly regarded Kuomintang economist, Ma Yinchu, the Generalissimo's old economics teacher (who was confined during the war for his criticism of the Central Government), on to Shanghai to continue the attack on "bureaucratic capitalism." Before such semi-official and private organs as the Chinese Institute of Banking Studies and the Chinese Institute of Agrarian Economics, Ma spoke of the concentration of capital in the Government and the use of public funds for private speculation in commodities and gold-a practice that makes the scandalous a routine matter in China today. Shanghai...
Bess Truman once more gladdened the hearts of the temperance people by turning down a glass of wine, proffered by amateur waitress Congresswoman Jessie Sumner. (No prohibitionist, Mrs. T. just doesn't like the taste of the stuff.) Occasion: the monthly luncheon of her Spanish teacher's class. Mrs. Truman, who turned up in a hat to remember (see cut), was on a spot: no water was served with the meal, which was so spicily Iberian that Senator Homer Ferguson's wife Myrtle was moved to report: "Now I know where the flamethrowers come from...
...Frazer, wore a red-plaid "lucky" shirt, its pockets overflowing with rabbits' feet and four-leaf clovers. (He went out on mendacious.) The audience's obvious favorite was Mattie Lou Pollard, 13, who goes to a one-room schoolhouse in Thomaston, Ga. and has had only one teacher all her life. (She lost on anarchy.) Third-place winner, Leslie Dean, 12, of Hawthorne, N.J., flunked on asceticism. Other toughies: hypotenuse, covenants, queue, knavery, cataclysm, colander, staccato, abscess...
...headmaster and teacher, Hugh Diman preferred respect to love; he once complained of a picture that it did not make him look strict enough. He was kindly to his boys, but rarely familiar; at his most informal, he would give them friendly pokes in the ribs with his walking stick. Few "Mr. Chips" stories were told about him. More often the boys talked about his bad driving (he permanently scarred a driveway maple tree at St. George's) or his absentmindedness...
...Sample (from nine-year-old Charles Smith of St. Louis, whose nominee did not win): "Im going to have a new teacher tomorrow. Ive been promoted up to three high. I wont say Im not glad to be promoted. But it makes me feel kind of sad when I think about going up above Miss Tobin. She was my teacher all through three low and no matter how high I ever go she will still be the best teacher in the world. All of the kids say that. Michael Reed will tell you the same. Michael and I were walking...