Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked with his family's construction company, played the piano in a cinemahouse at night. He won local dancing contests, sang in minstrel shows, acted in neighborhood dramas. Finally he too became a professional coach. One of his assignments was in Durham, N. C., where he had to teach the business to a neophyte named Freeman F. Gosden. For six years they staged musical shows, plays and circuses for such organizations as the Elks, American Legion and Shriners, carried properties and costumes around the country in innumerable trunks. In 1924 they were made office managers of the company, took...
...would buy all the navies of the world if it would end war, but: "You can't end war by taking away the weapon that is at hand. Men fought before there were battleships or before there were guns. The only way to end war is to teach the fellows who profit by it that they can profit some other way, and get the ideas of war out of their head...
...persisted in telling a wealthy parent the truth about her repulsive and boobish child. Not that M. Topaze objected to offering flattery-he was merely too simple ever to have conceived of it. He lived in a world governed by the axioms which he had tried vainly to teach to his small boys. Consequently when he fell in love with the mistress of the politician Castel-Benac, she easily persuaded M. Topaze to become that scoundrel's unconscious tool. And even when M. Topaze learned the truth and spent his days quivering with remorse and fright, and disguising...
After the first influx of students has paced over this ground, the path remains in such a succulent and oozy condition that only the most courageous dare traverse it. Professorial dignity is scattered to the winds when the unfortunate faculty members who teach in Harvard Hall try to avoid the mud of one path by navigating the brook let leading towards University Hall...
Born in Norfolk, Va., with the fairly respectable name of Margaret Upton, Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner was only 15 when she ran away, fascinated, with Trick-Cyclist Heurtin, who promised to teach her how to turn a somersault on a bicycle and thus become a great actress. Mr. Heurtin was like a father to her, the simp, but in Colorado she met Everett Archer, who fluttered her; she married him, discovered that "Love is not beautiful and romantic; it is horrible and disgusting." Two days were enough; she went back to Norfolk with the apprehensive Mr. Heurtin...