Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Despite this scolding to Progressive Educators, Mrs. Post's book, drawing heavily on the theories of modern child psychologists, lays down few rules to which Progressives might take exception. Some of her rules...
...Post likes old-fashioned ways best. "It is frankly my opinion," says she, "that the encouragement of unrestrained self-expression has gone too far, and that what parents and children of the present day really need is a return to the sanity, the simplicity-and the discipline-of ideal home life...
Many Manhattan critics, fixing on the intermittent "problem-play" tone of the drama, wrote of it with patronizing witticisms. An exception was the Post's sensitive, scholarly John Mason Brown, who gave Fledgling one of the longest play reviews of the season, said: "It treats playgoers as grownups and the theatre as an adult institution...
Last week two New York Stock Exchange seats were sold by disgusted broker-owners for $33,000 each, lowest price since 1899. Even in 1933, Wall Streeters paid up to $250,000 for seats. But by last week, the 26th of U. S. industry's post-Flanders upward trend, it looked as though Wall Street was one place in the U. S. where the defense program was definitely depressing...
...successful post-season dance, organized by Steve Grant was featured at Winthrop House last Saturday night. Over 175 couples attended the affair, which was held from 8 to 12 o'clock...