Word: downeast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lemann remembered Fickett as the "ideal of the New England schoolmarm" personality, with her "downeast" appearance and voice. Even in the hot summer, Lemann said, she would go into the business office "in her schoolmarm clothes," open the sliding wooden window and "not let anything phase...