Word: thoms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gerald Thom' a youth who is having his expenses paid through college by some unknown benefactor and who has not sufficient money to mingle with the more aristocratic students, was received with special disfavor. Coins were added to the missles thrown and jingled on the stage to the intense delight of the student body present...
...November 3,--Several hundred educators from forty colleges and universities will gather at a dinner to be held here on Friday evening, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the College Entrance Examination Board, it is announced by the Secretary of the Board, Professor Thom. as Scott Fiske of Columbia University...
...Department of Labor, through its Children's Bureau, took the parental bull directly and single-handedly by the horns. Its Dr. I. A. Thom issued commandments on child management: "Don't bribe. Don't make promises which you know you cannot or do not intend to keep. Don't threaten a child in order to obtain control over...
Among threats Dr. Thom doubtless had in mind: "Be good or the doctor will cut your tongue out." "The old man with a black bag picks up little girls who don't mind their mothers...
...Thom's injunctions were accompanied by literature on the responsibilities of parenthood (including cheerfulness at mealtimes), upon the fostering of juvenile initiative (anti-apronstring), upon the manly ("battle of life") assets to be implanted by judicious denial of childish desires...