Word: schoolroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insist on a right - which they do not have - to edit my copy." The Pogo balloon that Editor Colburn popped was only the beginning. Said Pogo a few strips later: "This fella said the thing to do when schools is padlocked or bombed is to open a speakeasy schoolroom near by." Albert the Alligator chimed in: "You open up a school, next thing you know all kinds of ignoramusses is comin' in ... They meets yo' daughter . . . Splits a orange with her poof! They's engaged, married, an' livin' in the attic." On their rounds. Pogo...
...instigators of the violence were probably motivated by fear, said Siegenthaler. "In most counties the Negro population is large, and white parents rebel against thoughts of their children in the same schoolroom with Negroes." They fear that integration in schools could lead to inter-racial marriages...
Throughout the Bible Belt only a handful of pulpits ring with talk about the brotherhood of man-if brotherhood implies sitting together in a schoolroom. Pro-segregation sentiment is strongest in the areas where the rooted religion is Baptist and where the pentecostal sects flourish...
...young critic of royalty. Lord Altrincham, who "would have liked to have seen him enter a state-run primary school." But it was certainly more democratic than the old royal custom that prescribed for all heirs to the throne a private education under governess and tutors in the palace schoolroom...
...eyes lit up when they saw the bar. "Look at these low sinks!" exclaimed Balthazar Trumpi of Glarus, Switzerland. "This is perfect for the nursery. In the sinks the children can play at washing dishes, and join in the community activity." Soon the ballroom had been converted to a schoolroom, the basement bar into a workshop. Within the next week 62 more Brothers had arrived and settled into their new communal home...