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...nevertheless, and in growing were moved to both experiment and reform. Corporal punishment was condemned in 1850-an era when most U.S. schoolmasters, as a matter of course, still whipped by the chart (one lash for every foot above three climbed up a tree, two lashes for blotting a copybook). New York instituted night schools in 1847, children's classes in hygiene and sanitation in 1885, in sewing, cooking and manual training in 1887, lectures for workingmen...
...pestered British officialdom with requests that he be reposted to Moscow, begged them to pressure the Russians to grant Clara's visa. This militancy was not appreciated by the Foreign Office, which believes its juniors should tend to their tasks and keep out of trouble. "For blotting my copybook," as he put it, Hall was transferred to the Commonwealth Relations Office. Later, he was posted to Ottawa as assistant to Novelist Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat in the Commonwealth press office. He kept up the prodding. Finally the British in Moscow gave Clara a job as a telephonist...
...spite of their losses, the proud ROKs had proved their stomach for battle. Last week Eighth Army Commander James Van Fleet, the man mainly responsible for the ROK resurgence, reviewed elements of two new ROK divisions-the 12th and 15th-at the start of their training. With the copybook eloquence that becomes him, Soldier Van Fleet said: "The ROK army has come of age. It has proved to the world its great fighting heart. It will always be successful in battle. May it never fail...
...Washington's autograph on the first page of his Bible. ¶ The Eliot Indian Bible of 1663, first complete Bible to be printed in America (translated into the language of the Algonquin Indians by the Rev. John Eliot). ¶ The so-called "Jefferson Bible," a red morocco-bound copybook, in which Jefferson, a deist, pasted the words of Jesus as clipped from Bible texts. ¶ President Truman's inauguration Bible, in which he noted in ink on the flyleaf: "There was much scurrying around to find this book on which to take the oath...
...Odets' treatment, though often dramatic, was always prefabricated, and at times now it seems both dated and flat. The brutalization through big-shotism and the defeat through victory of Joe Bonaparte, who becomes a prizefighter and breaks his violin-playing hands, is given a copybook patness. Joe's violent racing-car death merely adds a crude exclamation point. John Garfield's Joe, moreover, never for a moment suggests a guy with music in his heart, let alone in his fingers. As staged by Odets, the production, which co-stars Lee J. (Death of a Salesman) Cobb, does...