Word: winnetka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Alfred Edward McCordic, 67, of Winnetka, Ill., president of Illinois Car & Equipment Co.; in Chicago...
What went on was similar to many a pedagogic congress held this summer, every summer. Three hundred papers were read, debated. There were speeches on the Dewey Method, the Dalton Plan, the Winnetka (Ill.) Technique. U. S. delegates compared methods, tried their ability in foreign languages and prepared to be off for more vacation, more conferences. Proudly they postcarded home that they had stood where Hamlet heard his father's ghost, had seen the room where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern told the King that as old student friends of Hamlet they could cure his lunacy...
...Elisabeth Rethberg must grow flowers and swim twice a day. Her house and garden are in Winnetka, near the lake shore. Mme. Rethberg and Giovanni Martinelli will play again La Compana Sommersa (Respighi), which had its Metropolitan premiere last season...
...Lawn-mowing in Winnetka is a regular Martinelli summer occupation. It is good for the girth. Among the regular Martinelli outpourings will be Manon Lescaut, Samsonn et Dalila, Aida. Curly-haired Tenor Martinelli returned, not long ago, from his first-in-16-years visit to Italy. Near him in Winnetka will be versatile Tenor Edward Johnson...
...buildings); Gary. Ind. (work-study-play method of education); Dallas (adult education); Cleveland (adult education; education against venereal disease; teaching parents how to raise children); Washington (education against venereal disease); Boston (district health centres); St. Louis (plenty of hospital beds); San Francisco (prevention, treatment & instruction of hard of hearing); Winnetka, Ill. (progressive education...