Word: ormond
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Leon Ormond, a teacher in the Arts High School of Newark, N. J., has two classes of children with I. Q.s of 80 or less. Their reading is poor, their spelling worse. But Teacher Ormond encouraged them to write verses. Last week he triumphantly reported that near-morons can write. To prove it he published uncorrected samples of their poetry in The Clearing House, an educational magazine. Sample...
...Ormond concluded that a dull child may be "every bit as imaginative" as a brighter one, has certain advantages as a poet: 1) because he has read less, his poetry is innocent of cliches; 2) because his reactions are more primitive ("He is more apt to be a jitterbug"), his poetry has rhythm...
...ORMOND LAWSON JOHNSTON...
...opera with Society Empress Grace Wilson (Mrs. Cornelius) Vanderbilt, Georgia-born Mrs. J. Ormond Lawson-Johnston, once a Broadway mammy singer known as Betty Lee, now a London socialite and intimate friend of the Windsors, dropped her evening bag (containing diamond-studded, gold-plated doodads, value: $2,500) on a Manhattan street. Missing it, the party returned to the Vanderbilt Fifth Avenue mansion, questioned all the servants. Flustered Mrs. Vanderbilt called in the dicks. Next day the bag was returned by an honest jobless couple who had found...