Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Edward Kennard Rand died on October 28 at his home in Cambridge, the world lost one of its greatest Latin scholars, known and loved for his knowledge and ability to teach the language in both its classical and mediaeval forms...
...child of the New York Herald Tribune's tiny, self-assured vice president, Mrs. Ogden Reid. The newspaper business has no comparable public-service venture. It also has no one who quite compares with Mrs. Reid. Eleventh child of an Appleton, Wis. family, she was all set to teach Latin when she left Manhattan's Barnard College, 42 years ago. Instead she took a job in New York as social secretary to Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and proceeded to memorize the Social Register...
...coffee boats come in. Trombonist Jim Robinson, 53, a crack tailgate man (he calls it "cellar-playing") worked in a New Orleans shipyard during the war. His last job: picking up nuts & bolts. Drummer Warren ("Baby") Dodds, a New Orleans alumnus, played drums for 20 years in Chicago, helped teach such top drummers as Gene Krupa, George Wettling, Ray Bauduc, Dave Tough, and quit steady work because it gave him high blood pressure...
...feel absolutely no shame before you. We are like two married men who meet in a whorehouse." Before the two launch into their scriptwriting, worldly-wise Bergmann says to Isherwood: "You are a typical mother's son. . . . You are innocent. ... I shall proceed to corrupt you. I shall teach you everything from the very beginning...
...Teach Those Guys. . . ." His mother has spent 40 of her 70 years in Canada, speaks little English, has few friends. She is homesick. He and his wife will go with her to Japan. There, he avers: "I'm going to teach those guys some democracy. I don't think I'll be welcome...