Word: headmistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only truly crestfallen mourners were the battalion of aristocratic British gentlewomen in reduced circumstances who for years have eked out their meager pensions by sponsoring (for fees running as high as ?1,000) the daughters of better-heeled but less nobly born parents. Said Mrs. Rennie O'Mahony, headmistress of Cygnet House, which accepts a fee to train prospective debutantes in the niceties of curtsies and court behavior: "My little fledglings are quite excited that they will be the last to be anointed. But I am very...
...University of Munich was a famous classics center, and even though no woman had ever been admitted before. Edith was soon a familiar sight in Munich's classrooms, seated at her special place, isolated from the males, on the speaker's platform. In 1896, she was made headmistress of Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. There, for 26 years, "Miss Edith" remained...
...group of wide-awake P.T.A. mothers, from Larchmont to Santa Monica, would be appalled by the situation at Montigny. The district superintendent of schools not only sleeps with the women teachers but pinches the girl students while inviting them up to see his etchings; the headmistress is a Lesbian; her kittenish assistant indiscriminately chases both sexes; one of the male teachers writes love sonnets to a pretty 15-year...
Virginia's famed Mrs. Chipsian Lucy Madeira Wing, 83, resigned after 51 years as headmistress of suburban Washington's genteel Madeira School. Schoolmarm Madeira, a doughty New Dealer, kept her girls, including daughters of such notable capital names as Morgenthau, Hopkins and Saltonstall, in green jumper uniforms, out of lipstick, with chaperoned escorts, and under a stiff liberal-arts regimen. Her favorite mottoes, watchwords to two generations of time-tried Madeira maidens: "Function in disaster!" and "Finish in style...
...subject of segregation, however, the government-and many educators-are adamant. "In a few years," explains Headmistress Hadassah Brill of the Luria school, "the Europeans will be in a minority in Israel. We must integrate with the Orientals to form one people, and if this isn't done in the schools it will never be done." Adds Moshe Avidor, Director General of the Ministry of Education: "Until East and West have identical standards, there is no future for Israel. Somehow these Oriental children have to be catapulted from the Middle Ages or earlier to the 20th century, from...