Word: schooled
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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After an apprenticeship as a stage baby, Jackie Coogan, 4, was doing the shimmy in a vaudeville act with Annette Kellerman when Charles Chaplin, then meditating The Kid, put him on contract. After he had made 14 pictures Jackie's parents sent him to Loyola High School in Los Angeles. Now 16, he is in the junior class, weighs 95 lb., likes to wear white spats away from school. His allowance, until recently, was $20 per week when he was earning about $3,500 per week...
...Lewis, Henry Louis Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill. Paul Robeson, Negro tenor and actor, not listed in Who's Who in America, is listed in Britain's Who's Who. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's history is recounted as follows: "Enrolled in flying school, Lincoln, Neb., in 1922; flew alone from New York to Paris, 1927." Col. Lindbergh's father-in-law Dwight Whitney Morrow does not appear. Nicholas Murray Butler's paragraph occupies more space in the volume than that of any other man or woman, British or foreign...
...Erode, Madras, India, 45 students at the London Mission School collapsed after luncheon. Thirty of them and the school cook died in agony; 15 were in critical state. In the soup pot, physicians found a well-cooked venomous lizard...
...laboratories of E. R. Squibb & Sons at New Brunswick, N. J. Because Doc Dobbin has produced antitoxin enough to treat 30,000 children, Dr. John F. Anderson, Squibb vice president, gave a birthday party on the anniversary of Doc Dobbin's ninth year of service. One hundred school children from Highland Park, N. J. attended. The birthday table was placed on the laboratory lawn, held on it a white cake with nine candles and nine big red apples. While the children sang "Happy Birthday to You" and shouted "Many happy returns," Doc Dobbin bobbed his head...
Each of the 360 U. S. chests needs executive directors or secretaries. They form a new profession always certain of employment. The Association of Community Chests & Councils has created and partly finances a school for their training. It is the School of Social Administration, one of Ohio State University's graduate schools. Students must possess the minor A. B. or B. S. degrees, must study one year ?three months in field work, the rest in sociology and allied courses...