Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time in his garden workshop. He made toy battleships and airplanes, repaired Joyce's doll house. Otherwise, toys being so scarce and costly, the children might have had no new ones for Christmas. He visited the school to see how his kids were making out; the teacher made him tell an assembly about "life in the desert." On his last night the family had a feast of roast lamb, boiled potatoes, cabbage, Queen's pudding-a spongy affair with...
...consist entirely of 98 pounds of tubercular lung, was rejected for a complaint many of his listeners spotted back in the summer: a punctured ear drum. Thus, as it must come to all men, lost hope came to Frank, who had fondly confided in a draft board teacher that he wanted to be a marine...
...wedlock, at the Tuscan town of Vinci, in 1452. His father was a prominent lawyer, his mother a peasant woman. The bastard was brought up by his father. Precociously gifted in painting and drawing, he was sent to work with Andrea del Verrocchio, a sculptor and art teacher of Florence...
Eddie Gardner: I gotta be educated. Let's pretend you're my old teacher from Harvard...
Surf in Her Head. The best feature of The Walsh Girls is its superb characterization of Lydia. Reaching her 40th birthday in the summer of 1935, teacher of high-school English to classes that were now filled with the children of her old school mates, neat, precise, churchgoing, independent, heartbreakingly lonely, she lived alone in the mansion she inherited, an exemplification of the remoteness of the culture she taught from the stirring life around her. Each morning she put on her black hat with a feather on it, her scarf, galoshes, sweater and coat, and went to her class...