Word: headmistresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lucy Madeira Wing, who was 75 last week, is a reformed tomboy. For 52 years, as a kind of "retribution" for an early and intense dislike of anybody in skirts, she has been teaching girls. "Miss Madeira," founder and headmistress of Virginia's exclusive, expensive and excellent Madeira School, went to public school herself. She would like to see the day when private schools like .Madeira close down...
...years, the headmistress sank her profits in the school. Then she borrowed $900,000 on her reputation, in 1931 moved the school into new Georgian buildings on a wooded, 200-acre estate overlooking the Potomac, twelve miles from town. Today there are 186 girls, and most of the debt has been paid...
Simply Dreadful. Miss Madeira, one of Washington's last New Dealers, thinks it "simply dreadful" that most of her students must come from "economic royalist" families.* Returning from vacation, the daughter of a West Virginia mine operator once told the headmistress: "My father likes everything about your school except your ideas...
Duty, Not Reward. To keep the girls from outspending each other, the headmistress dresses them in green jumpers and cotton dresses. Lipstick, smoking, furs and Washington charge accounts are forbidden. So are unchaperoned dates...
After a day's work as headmistress of Manhattan's fashionable girls' Brearley School, Mrs. Mclntosh rushes home to play with her four sons and one daughter (aged 7 to 13) until their 9:30 bedtime. To keep them "individuals," she packs off each of the children (including the twins) to a different school. Weekends, on a Massachusetts farm, the younger Mclntoshes get better acquainted with each other and with mother and father-Dr. Rustin Mclntosh, who is a professor of pediatrics at Columbia and director of Babies Hospital...