Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show up and he hurried over to the Plaza across the street and got the coat check girl and a dining room captain to help out in the parts of the rascally smugglers. He might be able to do a Pygmalion with the coat check girl if he could teach her cockney, and there is a scene in Mr. Pinero's "Magistrate" where the waiter would fit in nicely but it's all very quaint in "The Ghost Train...
...through 17 printings, people keep on asking her new conduct-questions. Recent examples: "Do you think it would be attractive to have the groom sing a solo at his wedding . . . and do I stay with the groom after the wedding most of the time?" Another: "How do you teach children not to swallow fish bones?" Another: "How can I develop sufficient ingenuity to be a cook-waitress and at the same time a cool, tranquil and charming hostess? . . . when I get up from the table to change plates or bring in a dish from the kitchen every...
...Slommsky, the new conductor o the Orchestra, studied at St. Petersburg Conservatory. During the Russian Revolution he went to France where he continued his tudies. There he met Serge Koussevitsky, now conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and through his agency came to this country to teach in the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, New York. At present be is conducting the Boston Chamber Orchestra and accompanying visiting artists on the piano...
...have rancor and timidity, physical flinching, addled reasoning, suspicion, pompous illusions and gross fears, but never anything that can be laid alongside a fact or will stand a shot of common sense. Yet this unreason infests the professorial mind, and the men who are given their responsible positions to teach youth to meet life prepared to understand it, deal with it and make the best of it, send their pupils after moonbeams, chimera and the blood-sweating behemoth...
...sake of their editorial arguments for military training and which both must have learned from their University of Wisconsin correspondents at Madison (each is rich enough to hire squads of reporters) is this: instructors at that university do not persuade their students against military training. They try to teach the men & women under them to examine life clearly, to be individuals. If students wish the undeniable benefits of physical training, regimentation and patriotism which service with the R. O. T. C. gives, no instructor tries to dissuade them. Instructors at the University of Wisconsin, as at all U. S. colleges...