Word: headmistresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is Aimee, the selfish, ambitious new teacher who becomes principal of the school by marrying the nephew of the school board's head, and who forsakes Claudine just as she thought she had found someone in whom to confide; there is Miss Sergent, the former headmistress, whom Claudine detests because she senses that the older woman's interest in her is beyond what it should be; and Docteur Dubois, a dashing young physician with whom Claudine falls in love as terribly and superficially as only girls of her age can. The worst moment of her life, when Dubois suddenly...
...Misled by a correspondent, TIME regrets implying that Mrs. Wing, headmistress of The Madeira School in Virginia, hurt her knee at Dr. Shaw's school, where he has substituted square dancing for football as an equally strenuous major sport (TIME, Sept...
Pappy Shaw's hobby so impressed his fellow educators that last fortnight 97 of them went to his school, danced morning, noon & night. Headmistress Lucy Madeira. Wing, of The Madeira School for girls in Virginia, sprained her knee, but the rest went home unscathed and enthusiastic...
...comely young headmistress, Miss Ruutz-Rees used to drive her late-staying admirers in a horse and buggy to the railroad station in Meriden, Conn., taking along a pistol for the return trip. Never married, she adopted a son, Roland, and a daughter, known to Rosemarians as Bonnie Bell (now Mrs. Jacobus A. J. Van der Bunt Jr.). Famed is her long line of pet black poodles, from Mouf I to Mopsa. Famed also are her activities as a suffragette, as a women's leader in the Council of National Defense in World War I, as a member...
...chief adult escort for the children, onetime Headmistress Miss Margaret Elizabeth Day of Wycombe Abbey School, told a racking account of the disaster: "I was in my cabin when I heard an explosion. As I seized my coat and life belt, water was entering the cabin. I dashed to the children's quarters and found them still asleep. . . .An officer shouted to the children to hurry on deck, and we started, with the children behaving magnificently. . . .We clambered into a lifeboat but it had shipped much water and its rudder was gone. . . .The children were singing Roll...