Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story gets under way with Greta doing a Javanese dance very badly before an Oriental God who seems not to mind. In the audience is the somewhat greasy Ramon Novarro, who, in his Russian uniform, looks like a well-trained barber's assistant at any conceivable Ritz. He falls in love instantly with the glamorous danseurse, which she undeniably is, and spends the night with her. Finding it expedient to obtain some dispatches in his possession, she goes to him on the second night, gets the papers, but loses her heart to him, although how she can is inconceivable. Then...
Looking like Peck's bad boy, Venezuelan General Nogales stands in full Turkish uniform in the frontispiece of his book to give readers a foretaste of mischief to come. It comes: should the supply run short in one hemisphere there is bound to be plenty in the other. The doughty general craves trouble as a cat craves fish, can nose it from afar. Do or die is no mere shibboleth to him, but sober truth. "For certain men not to do is to die, to die a spiritual and very disagreeable death. From such a death I have been...
...other classroom procedures--ought certainly not to be abandoned; it ought rather to be cultivated. But why obscure the realities of learning by inducing a false and perfunctory interest in the accumulation of marks for courses? And why insist that group teaching shall be done in units of uniform length? Let the clever teacher go on teaching groups--i.e., giving courses--but let the content of the course and the known abilities of the students dictate the duration of the teaching. The course has hampered the development of good teaching by robbing it of freedom and flexibility...
...stooped, white-haired, interested in missionary, charity work. Representative of the late Henry O. Havemeyer, head of the sugar trust which was dissolved in 1922, he has been National's president since 1900. Under such men the Institute has accomplished its purpose. Marketing of refined sugar has become uniform; $2.000,000 has been spent advertising sugar's food value; researchers are busy at Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh looking for industrial uses...
Squat little Outfielder Lewis Robert ("Hack") Wilson, with the smallest feet and the dirtiest uniform in baseball, got his first big league job with the New York