Word: valedictorian
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...looked pale and nervous in the glare of the floodlights; when he began to speak his voice almost failed. He had worked on the speech for days, had reworked it the night before in his suite at the Dorchester, and had committed it to memory like a high-school valedictorian. For a few minutes he sounded like one. But as he went on, he got better, and the crowd began to realize that Ike was doing all right...
...grade school Sunny skipped second, fourth and sixth grades. But she had scarcely been graduated from high school as her class valedictorian when she married ("unfortunately, and you can say that") one Edwin Ettinger. Edwin was 28, Sunny 15. After five months-an alltime marital endurance record for Sunny-she left...
Lady from New York. In Sapulpa. Okla. they never thought of giving a musical entertainment without "that little Hutt girl." Texas-born daughter of a trainman on the Frisco line. Frances Hutt was not only pretty and a gifted singer; she was also smart enough to be high school valedictorian. With $400, proceeds from a Kiwanis concert, and a railroad pass from her father, she set out for New York to study singing. Through her teacher she met a promising baritone named Thomas E. Dewey. After a tour in George White's Scandals, Frances married Tom Dewey...
...Skin a Cat. In Atlantic City, Valedictorian Marvin Smith, prevented by laryngitis from speaking his piece to the Coast Guard radio school's graduating class, set up a telegraph ticker on the platform, delivered his message by Morse code...
Died. Dr. William Francis Magie, 84, notable fixture of Princeton's physics department for 50 years; after long illness; in Princeton, NJ. Valedictorian of Woodrow Wilson's class ('79), he was a member of the original Daily Princetonian board...