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...their conclave last year, these British schoolmasters condemned women teachers out of hand; said they were responsible, by their mollycoddling methods, for increase in juvenile crime; said that every boy over seven should be under the firm hand of a man. Meeting shortly afterward, the National Union of Teachers referred to the general activities of the National Association of Schoolmasters as "pugnacious prancings" (TIME, April...
...Advisory Commission to the .... Exposition, a school superintendent; a Rotarian, a Kiwanian and a Lion; a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jewish clergyman; an American Legion man and a Daughter of the American Revolution; a clubwoman, a Woman Voter, a Parent-Teacher representative; an adult executive each of the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls...
Mayor C. A. Tetley of Farmington said: "I remember Asbury as a boy here, and he seemed like any other young chap. I think he must have got a little out of balance since he left Farmington. We resent chiefly the aspersion cast on all** the women of Farmington...
John Corsey grew up the tensest little aristocrat of all, with passions to match his principles; to assault them; never to bend them, but eventually to break them, and break him. He was the kind of little boy who hides the humiliation of undeserved punishment. As a young man he seared in fire the hand with which he struck his friend. He rode at perilous water-jumps because he was afraid of them. He quit law because he could not find in it a way to make the world finer...
...unbending before the new regime of upstart Jew manufacturers; Mildred, a proud, suffering, spent stranger in his house. John was able to make some amends to Nina. He abandoned his code to the extent of lying to get their Communist son out of jail. But neither Nina nor the boy really needed even that. They were self-sufficient. They loved him, thanked him and took their ways. John accepted an ambassadorship and invited Mildred to go with him, to live out their failure together...