Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Headmistress Ruutz-Rees's exact specifications. All regard her with a loyalty that makes Rosemary Hall notable among girls' schools not so much for its fashionableness and its stiff scholastic standards as for the fact that it perfectly reflects the imperious personality of its headmistress. Last week Miss Ruutz-Rees, still going strong at 71, took it into her head to retire. Characteristic was her method. She directed her alumnae association to buy the school from her, and immediately her Rosemarians began laying plans...
Rosemary girls are divided into a lower school with 126 pupils, an upper school with 102. They work so hard at Latin under Miss Ruutz-Rees and English under Miss Lowndes that when they get to Smith or Vassar it is often with a sigh of relief. "Ten bar girls," who have served ten terms in the student government, are Duces, and the girl voted outstanding in each graduating class is an Optima. Both Optimae and Duces have their names carved in oak panels in the dining hall. Girls are subject to constant British roll calls to which they answer...
...brief Prologue in which the Principal of a Girls' College, Miss Elishba Hupplefeather, admirably acted by Miss Agnes Love, raises with a couple of her charges the question of "Man and his Inspiration" and illustrates it by the story of Jonah and the Whale and the Eternal Father laughing gently at Jonah's anger...
...belly of the whale, in which the whale out of consideration for Jonah's position has had nothing to drink, or the scene at the Hotel Baal in Nineveh, where the Lady chairman of the Semiramis Club, a sort of women's Rotary, a part ably acted by Miss Evelyn Stern, speaking of the post-war generation of young people with their fondness for mixed Greek wines and Ethiopian music, calls upon the Prophet from his far-flung battle line to give them all his "message...
...social conditions in the Empire, was in a position to accomplish a great deal along humanitarian lines. David Windsor, as he will now be called, was in closer contact with the masses of England than any other King before him, and those very people who needed his attention will miss it most...