Word: truants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...directed academic work: social sciences, then arithmetic and writing, after these reading and so on. The parents met regularly, joined in school activities. The village of Croton watched a bit suspiciously the hatless, overalled, unrepressed children, dashing down to look at local industries, asking grown-up questions. The Croton truant officer was perplexed, too. Once he offered to help round up Hessian Hills truants, along with those from the public schools. He was told that was unnecessary; but if he liked he might help Hessian Hills at its difficult daily job of getting the children to go home when school...
...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...
...Jersey law permits parents to send their children to any schools they wish, provided the teaching is as good as that in the public schools. Last week the Vineland School Board invited Mrs. Smart to appear before it for examination as to her fitness to teach. Truant Officer Jock Steineder drove out to the Harmony Truth Centre to bring Mrs. Smart to the meeting. But he drove back without her. It was "inconvenient" for her to come, said Citizen Smart gaily. The Board then served five-day notice on the Smarts, by which they must show their competence...
...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...