Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between a teacher and a politician, declared Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee in addressing a teachers' conference at Albany, N. Y. last week, there is this difference: A teacher makes his bed and lies in it; a politician makes his bunk and lies...
...recently shocked: from London came reports that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had agreed to discuss with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera whether the people of Ulster should now decide by plebiscite whether to remain part of the United Kingdom or join Eire. Last week Ulster was flabbergasted when tall, teacher-ish Eamon de Valera suddenly announced at Dublin that his demands go much beyond a plebiscite...
Thus, having had their interest aroused by Indian blankets a teacher has brought into their classroom, pupils may decide to study Indians. They form committees, go to libraries, museums, parks to find out what Indians ate, where and how they lived. Later they report to their classmates, build tepees, write and produce plays. In the same way they study boats, farming, Egypt. In doing so they have been learning to read, write, count, multiply...
...plump, homey individual, as different from Soprano Farrar as Pilsener is from champagne, Soprano Lehmann writes much better. The daughter of a small town bookkeeper who wanted her to be come a respectable stenographer or school teacher, Lotte Lehmann made a very gradual climb to stardom, worked her way laboriously through bit parts at second-rank German opera houses. It was not until the London Covent Garden season of 1923 that she won international fame. But once won, that fame stuck like well-swabbed glue...
...corner he pasted a photograph of a bottle of "Teacher's Highland Cream" whiskey. Immediately above this basks a nearly naked beauty in a bathing suit, and across from her is a photograph of a swim-suited bridge game on the Riviera which appeared in one of the picture magazines last summer. A shield with the Latin motto, "Sudor et Lacrimae," translated "sweat and tears" is in another corner, while a diapered baby slumbers in the middle...