Word: schoolwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buck to "outside producers and advertising agencies" and hastily contemplating a self-governing "code." While it considered what to do, it got the worst blast of all. In Clifton, N.J., Elementary School Principal Charles M. Sheehan flatly blamed "the late hours kept by children due to television programs" for schoolwork "inferior to my accepted standard." As an anti-TV clincher, Schoolmaster Sheehan announced some damaging statistics: "Last year at this time there were but two failures in one class. This year, in the same class, there...
They were playing only three nights a week; schoolwork kept them from doing more. Since July they had been packing fans into Van Nuys' elaborate, teenagers' Ciro's, the Dri-Nite Club, and making more than pocket money doing it (about $45 a week). By last week, they had spread out to playing one-nighters here & there, for fraternity dances and Hollywood high-lifers such as Columnist Jimmy Fidler. But the surest sign that they were really arriving was the hushed way the fans listened when the boys sat in with jazzbos like Drummer Zutty Singleton...
There were nightly sessions of homework with Père in charge. The boys' schoolwork got more attention than the girls'; father explained that girls got married and became wives & mothers, while boys could become priests or lawyers. He was a stern taskmaster. When his two sons entered his office as clerks, St. Laurent paid them $2.25 a week with the explanation : "When you have no money to spend, you have more time for your books." Père St. Laurent also laid down the rules for his daughters' courtships. Said daughter Madeleine: "Father's word on any subject...
...among Alma's childish effects pictures copied from the school's blackboard. Said indignant Mrs. Tallantire: "[They] would label me as a dirty woman if they were found in my handbag." She compared notes with other mothers, heard that their daughters had lost interest in games and schoolwork, were talking "nothing ... but sex, sex, sex." Last week Mrs. Tallantire said she had 1,000 signatures on a petition protesting the sex talks...
...Tajo had sung Don Basilio only two days after arriving in the U.S., and after only one rehearsal. But he has been working up to it since he was 13. It was then that he heard Pagliacci in Milan. Before long, he was reading librettos behind his schoolbooks. His schoolwork suffered ("I was stupido"), but Tajo didn't care...