Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kitty Marion's father, a harsh German (Westphalian), would bang her childish head with the knob of his long German pipe, to show her he was family boss. When she was 15, a stocky red-headed youngster, she ran away from the Westphalian home to England. After, drab vicissitudes there she became an actress of small parts, famed in a minor way for her vigorous championing of underdogs. One day she heard Emmeline Pankhurst speak on suffragism. Miss Marion* became a militant suffraget. To break her first plate-glass window she was obliged to throw two bricks, because...
...Mangin was mentioned as a deserving player who would probably gain official rating. Time Out still feels that potentially Shields deserves number 8 at least and maybe even better, while still realizing that official ratings must be made up on a basis of actual records. If the New York youngster ever takes the game seriously, he may surprise even the close followers of tennis...
...Doctrine of Freedom" is calculated to encourage spontaneity of development in the child. Given the proper environment, the happy child can do no wrong. In no way must the individuality of a Montessori-trained youngster be arrested, nor is the pupil stimulated to any unnatural effort. The system of "rewards & punishment" is un-Montessorian because it encourages the child to do something it would not want to do otherwise. A child who is not mentally or physically sick must become "master of himself" when at liberty. Platonically, he has then become disciplined. Parents are assured that Montessori-trained children...
...Foxy old M. Briand, who has been twelve times Prime Minister, accompanied M. Tardieu as Foreign Minister last week, effaced himself as much as possible, let the youngster have...