Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...childhood he was called simply Mustafa, having like most Turks under the Sultanate no family name. His mathematics teacher called this smart pupil Kemal, meaning "Perfection." In the Army he rose to the rank of Pasha...
...Awful Truth" is that our heroine has been forced to spend the night with her music teacher in a wayside inn under perfectly honorable circumstances, but can't convince her husband of just how honorable it all was. In fact, she has a hard time convincing the audience. As a result she has to sue for divorce, and play the old, old role of the woman who wins her man by telling him how much she hates...
Perhaps the most interesting teacher I have is Professor Langer from whom I am auditing modern European History. He has a penchant for making all the great events in history very human and loves to deflate the notables of the past century...
...most cases they were the parents' only child, a characteristic phenomenon among bright children, says Dr. Hollingworth. Many of them had not struck their parents as remarkable. Nor had they been particularly noted by their teachers, who observed only that, from having skipped grades, they were two or three years younger than their classmates. One 8-year-old lad, who had developed from the age of four a gift for drawing maps, had long been in conflict with his teacher over his habit of drawing them in the classroom after he finished his lessons. Said he: "When the teacher...
When Erna Sack, a comely blonde stenographer in Berlin, saved her pfennigs to study voice, she thought she was a mezzo-soprano. So did her first teacher, although a subsequent teacher lightened her voice so that, when Conductor Bruno Walter heard it, he gave her small lyric soprano parts at the Charlottenburg Opera. After her accidental discovery of C in altissimo, Soprano Sack perfected her coloratura. When, as a member of the able Dresden Opera, she sang in the world première of Richard Strauss's Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), and later in a revival...