Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...councils with members of the General Staff. Japanese businessmen, as usual, could not find out whether Japanese soldiers had been fighting at the command of their Government or because their local Japanese commanders had decided that the local opportunities for getting in a few blows were too good to miss last week...
...What the townspeople of Saugus have been talking about ever since, however, is the behavior of the club's 25-year-old coach, honey-haired English Teacher Isabelle Hallin. An experienced summer trouper who spent three seasons with the Garrick Players at Kennebunkport, Me., Saugus-bred Miss Hallin wears attractive, form-fitting dresses, makes adroit use of cosmetics. Moreover, six Bishop rehearsals had been held in the cellar of her home. Were cigarets served? Cocktails? What happened...
...ever said, exactly. But questions beat fretfully on the mind of one citizen, Spinster Maria Smith, 74, a retired teacher and the only woman on Saugus' School Board. Last week Miss Smith could stand it no longer. At a School Board meeting she persuaded two of her four male colleagues to vote with her that Teacher Hallin's contract should not be renewed next year...
Invited to resign, Teacher Hallin asked what the charges against her were. Tight-lipped Miss Smith would not say. Cried Miss Hallin: "I know it is those silly rumors about the drinking. And they're not true. Those children are only 17. There never was any liquor served." Teacher Hallin asked for a public hearing, which the Board refused. Pouted she: "Everything is going wrong at once. My parents are sick, and now my job has been unjustly taken away from, me. I'm blue...
...school committee come to the parents? Instead they took matters in their own hands and gave everybody the impression that terrible things went on." Echoed Mrs. Grace Whittredge: "Gossip! The reputation of our family in town is beyond reproach." Asked repeatedly to tell what her charges were, old Miss Smith let it be known that she had not investigated and would not press them in detail, but still wanted Miss Hallin to resign for "professional reasons." Students began to picket Miss Smith's house with such placards as WE WANT FAIR PLAY! GIVE THE HOME GIRL A CHANCE...