Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News comes to us from a former CRIMSON president now studying at the University of London, that neither of the two books that head the list of English best-sellers is written by an Englishman. One of course, is Thornton Wilder's "Bridge of San Luis Rey." The Lawrenceville teacher seems to have won quite a following abroad with the restrained writing of his philosophical novel. "The Bridge", however, is not the first in the eyes of Englishmen. That honor goes to "The Ugly Duchess", Feuchtwanger's historical romance which is among the first five on this side...
...With Brian, her son, she starts for the U. S., meeting on the way Bozo (Victor McLaglen), a lanky giant, and his harpist brother. The giant loves Ellen, follows her. He joins a circus, and persuades her to be a sideshow freak also. Ellen gives Brian to a school teacher for adoption, and there the lachrymation bursts forth. Years afterward the mother is a friendly charwoman, finally a nurse in a wealthy family. A youth comes courting, confiding to the old nurse his love for her charge. Thus mother and son meet; padding back and forth in front...
...Lewis Hendricks of Warrensburg, Mo.: "There is no greater problem in the field of education than the one-room rural school, and we have more than 150,000 of them. . . . Education fails to function in rural districts as certainly as democracy fails to function in a national election. . . . A teacher in the rural school gets $750 a year and a city teacher...
...White, she lives comfortably at Hempstead, Long Island. As Miss Adele Garrison, she is an oracle on marital problems for hundreds of her readers. Her own life has taught her to use her typewriter to produce what U. S. women like. Born in Clinton Junction, Wis., she became school teacher in Milwaukee, assistant Sunday editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, feature writer and reporter for the Chicago Examiner and Chicago American...
...wife of gouty Major John Pryor, but his father was a dashing French emigré (Charles Frémon) who ran off with his mother. Reared in the best Charleston, S. C., society, Frémont was a quick Latin and Greek scholar. People thought he might make a teacher or a preacher, until Joel R. Poinsett (manifest destiny man, Secretary of War, giver of the poinsettia to botany) put him in the Army Topographical Corps. He explored in the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, returned to Washington, D. C., with a reputation, was also pointed out as "the handsomest...