Word: schoolrooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Promptly at noon, Aug. 2, newspapermen, at the President's behest, entered his schoolroom office. Everett Sanders, his secretary, closed the door, stood guard-like. The President was smoking a cigar held in an ivory holder. He did not smile as usual, but solemnly inquired: "Is everyone 'here now?" and directed his professional visitors to file past him. As they did so, he handed each one a slip on which, a few minutes previously, Typist Gsioer had imprinted the 10 words "I do not choose to run for President...
...Outside the schoolroom which serves as the President's Rapid City executive office runs a corridor. In the corridor is a bench on which sit those awaiting a presidential audience. On the bench one morning last week sat a Wyoming dirt farmer, his wife, his daughter. From ten o'clock until noon they sat, patient, vigilant. On the stroke of twelve the President came out of the office, bowed to the trio, passed on. Called the farmer to a nearby Secret Service man: "Is that the President? 'Well, come on, Mandy; now we can say we seen...
...would then have a cover of real drawing power and high patriotic appeal. The thousands of school children who read TIME could not help but find this a great inspiration. Imagine a schoolroom bright with our flag, and a red, white and blue TIME on every pupil's desk...
Premier Poincaré journeyed last week to Alsace-Lorraine, the "lost provinces" which his militant patriotism did so much to regain for France. Entering many a schoolroom he sat down quietly beside the teacher, listened while children cradled in German struggled to recite in French. M. Poincaré then requested the children to recite in German and noted carefully the difference in their proficiency. Said he, at Metz: "The children grow each year more proficient in our beautiful tongue. The difference since my last visit two years ago is most marked...
Lorelei Lee, as nearly every one knows, is the long-suffering little murderess from Arkansas whom a Mr. Gus Eisman, Chicagoan in the button profession, found in Holly-wood and "educated." Her schoolroom is a suite at the Ritz, her text the Eisman checkbook. The play opens on shipboard, with Lorelei out-golddigging a pair of antique Britishers, what time she snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet...