Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most memorable moment was one that few listeners were aware of. In the last act, with Mimi a-dying, Segurola (known mainly to a later generation as Deanna Durbin's teacher) suddenly turned to Caruso and whispered hoarsely that he could not manage his final aria, the "Coat Song." Grated the basso: "I've lost my voice...
...Teacher Training...
...April 13, the controversy flared into the newspaper headlines. There professors from Boston College and one teacher from the Boston College High School had been fired by Father William J. Keleher, S. J., president of Boston College, for "preaching in and out of class matters of doctrine that should have been left in the hands of competent theologians; matters contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church; and ideas leading to intolerance and bigotry...
Among the 19-year-olds was Guy Hawkins, who had been in the first grade for eight years. One evening, when Teacher Stuart was working late at the school, Guy came back. "I aim to whip you," he said. "It's the same place where I whipped your sister." The two men fought, but this time it was Guy who took the beating...
...triumph, but his troubles had just begun. When he let his boys.& girls sit together, instead of keeping them on separate sides of the room, the bearded farmers of the valley grumbled that he was running "a courting school." When he went to call on the lady teacher in the next town ("pretty as a speckled pup," people had told him), the men & boys of her town ambushed him and bombarded him with rotten eggs...