Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that time a movement was animating worldwide Jewry to teach their young profitable occupations. Farming seemed among the best of these in the U. S. because Jewish immigrants were flooding into the cities, an increase in Jewish farming would divert some of the population from the teeming, unhealthy ghettos, the Jewish slums. To encourage such diversion the Agricultural Society was founded...
...Johnson's famed letters to Lord Chesterfield, to Faker James MacPherson, are printed entire; also his observation that Chesterfield's Letters "teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master." Says Blackwood's Magazine of Poet John Keats' Endymion: "calm, settled, imperturbable driveling idiocy." Gentle Poet Swinburne thus describes Ralph Waldo Emerson to his face: "a gap-toothed and hoary-headed ape, carried at first into notice on the shoulder of Carlyle, and who now in his dotage spits and chatters from a dirtier perch of his own finding and fouling: coryphaeus...
...cuckoo will not sing, I shall teach the stubborn thing...
...During the War he served as captain in the Italian cavalry. The king gave him the Blue Ribbon of the valor medal and made him a Knight. He was an amateur until 1920 when the Jockey Club of Buenos Aires offered him more than $1,000 a month to teach fencing to its members and their sons. After three years he left Buenos Aires because he was bored there. For exhibitions in Europe he gets a guarantee, usually under 25%, of the gate. As he travels around the Continent he reports sporting events for various South American newspapers...
...idea. But he does believe there is a load of common sense in the words of a distinguished physician who dares people to be themselves without shame: "Let us not train our children to a style of life in which they shall always demand to be first. Let us teach them to go out into the world and not be perfect--to do a good job there and have the courage to make mistakes if necessary. Let them not feel that their self-cateem depends on their being perfect. And let them have the courage for imperfections...