Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McGuffey was my maternal grandfather, and I am writing to ask if you will correct an error in your description of his personal appearance? Your account refers to him as "the sobersided, carrot-topped young teacher." As a matter of fact, Dr. McGuffey had heavy black hair, and was of dark complexion. I have this information from my mother, Mary McGuffey Stewart, who was a close associate of her father and who told me many things about him. Then, too, earlier in my own life I knew many people who were his close friends, and I visited in the home...
Farm-born Dwight Lyman Moody was a shoe clerk in Boston when, at 19, he was brought to Christ by his Congregational Sunday School teacher. Year later he was a $5,000-a-year shoe salesman in Chicago. There he began an extraordinary program of prayer-meetings, social work, personal evangelism, recreation, philanthropy. Short, stout, full-bearded, he became known to the Chicago Press as "Crazy Moody." He liked to stop pedestrians, inquire "Are you a Christian?" Declining for conscience's sake to fight in the Civil War, he nevertheless followed the Union armies saving souls. Critics said...
...Last week Miss Taylor was discovered at the Westchester County, N. Y. estate of Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville Jr., asbestos heir, who is separated from his wife but plays public host to a beauteous blonde "secretary" and a beauteous brunette "French teacher," Last week Manville happily gibbered to news hawks: "Miss Taylor is no relation at all, ex cept that I am in love with her. . . . This isn't Utah. I am already married. But if I am ever divorced from my wife. ... I may marry Nancy Carroll." †With Norma Taylor...
Researches by Dr. Walter H. Eddy of Columbia's Teacher's College have indicated that freezing and thawing do not alter the content of vitamins, solids, fats, carbohydrates or proteins in mother's milk...
...industrious was the sobersided, carrot-topped young teacher that when Cincinnati's Truman & Smith decided to publish a reader for Midwestern moppets everyone recommended him. Methodical Author McGuffey whistled for the neighbors' children, read them each selection before he included it. In the monosyllabic First Reader, small scholars read of the lame dog, cured by a veterinary, which expressed its gratitude by searching out another lame dog for the same treatment. A Kind Boy freed his caged bird; a Cruel Boy pulled the legs from flies. A Chimney Sweep, coming upon a gold watch, manfully overcame temptation...