Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hulking Chet Bowles leaned back in his chair and listened patiently. Then, calmly, like a teacher going over a lesson with a backward pupil, he replied: "But, Senator, you know the farmer is doing all right. When have farm markets been so good? Or prices so high? Or mortgages...
...them are the sons of professional men who were mainly clerics, professors, doctors, lawyers, journalists. One-fourth of their fathers were businessmen; the rest were farmers, auditors, a railroad conductor, etc. Their mothers (51% of them) were housewives, but the rest practiced a variety of occupations such as school teacher (14%), concert pianist, actress, periodical illustrator...
...grab off junk yards all over the postwar world. He installs himself, his henchman and his dumb blonde mistress in a fantastic $235-a-day hotel suite. Since there will be forays into official Washington society, he decides that the blonde had better get educated. His choice of a teacher is a crusading young writer on the New Republic. From there on everything in the play is predictable, but piquant. The young woman, who defines peninsula as "that new medicine," is soon taught words like antisocial and cartel. Her mind sharpens, her conscience stirs, and her amorous inclinations shift...
...Until this week, when radio's unsung bit players and stooges were finally honored by Hall of Fame (ABC, Sun., 6-6:30 p.m., E.S.T.), few listeners knew Mel by name. But millions probably knew him as Jack Benny's English butler, train announcer, parrot, French violin teacher and news reporter; as Burns & Allen's melancholy postman; as Judy Canova's Pedro, Salesman Roscoe Wortle and a chronic hiccougher; as Bob Hope's "Private Snafu"; as Abbott & Costello's Scotsman...
President Conant considered the Harvard Faculty member as well: on a year round schedule, he cannot be expected "to keep his freshness and vigor as a teacher or as a scholar," and arrangements are being made to give him a one term rest out of three or four...