Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gertrude Lawrence's last hit was The King and I, a return to her first love, the musical. As Mrs. Anna Leonowens, tutor to the children of the King of Siam, she lived her part so intensely that she signed her personal letters "Mrs. Anna." Last month Gertrude was admitted to New York Hospital for treatment of what seemed to be a minor liver ailment (it was cancer). Last week, after a sudden crisis, the dancing feet were forever stilled. To her friends, it was as though the lights on Broadway had gone out. This week Gertrude Lawrence...
...accomplished with little trouble on May 13 last spring when the University announced that the first three floors of Apley would henceforth be devoted to tutorial offices for communting students. At the same time Charles Preston Whitlock, associate director of the Bureau of Study Council, was named Senior Tutor of the Commuters Center...
Thus it was that Apley was in part turned over to the Commuters Center as a sort of intellectual annex for tutorial sessions. This, along with the appointment of a Senior Tutor for Dudley just as for the Houses, should do a great deal this year in raising the morale of a traditionally outcast group of Harvard...
Dialectician. In London, the Times's Personal column carried this ad: "Tutor with Scottish accent urgently required for intelligent parrot. Telephone Chancery...
...Brave Bulls (TIME, April 25, 1949). Like Ernest Hemingway, whose hard-packed style accents every sentence in Matador, Novelist Conrad is steeped in the classic ritual of the corrida. (In 1945, at 23, he shared an afternoon's billing in the Seville ring with his tutor, famed Juan Belmonte, and won the bull's ears for his performance.) But his real theme is the odor of fear and courage...