Word: truant
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...Vineland supervisor he sent a ten-page letter explaining not only that his wife was a better teacher than any in the local schools, but also that, going to school, his children might be bitten by dogs, run over by automobiles, exposed to disease or persuaded to play truant with other children...
...stimulate the process. The White House had no solid assurances of bank safety with which to turn the tide. Now, however, the President has the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to point to as a sturdy backlog for bank protection. With its two billion dollar credit it began to club truant cash back into stable depositories...
...excel that of their predecessors, Author Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence.* It is a play about two tender-hearted but irascible worldlings who, having divorced each other and remarried, meet again on their second honeymoons. Re-captivated by each other, they scamper away from their new spouses, enjoy a truant honeymoon in an Alpine chalet. By the time the deserted and negligible husband and wife arrive at the chalet, the place has been turned into a shambles. The truants have spent the second act in airy lovemaking, flip bickering, pillow-fights, blows. Next morning all four have breakfast together. High words...
...foster-brother Cyrena Van Gordon sang Wagner's siren song in a nurse's uniform, to a bare piano accompaniment, but in Philadelphia last week she sang it in its rightful pagan setting. Languorously, with blandishment in every tone, she tried to stay the truant Tannhäuser whose torn soul was marvelously depicted by the stately chords of holy Pilgrim music and the madly skirling strings of a Bacchanal. Tenor Gotthelf Pistor had the nasal, strutting manner of most German tenors, but his Tannhäuser showed a certain dark-toned dignity. Conductor Fritz Reiner made...
Boston schools were to open Sept. 10. But fearful parents there may keep their children from attendance until Oct. 1 before truant officers will call...