Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the sun, drove her 1938 Ford over dirt roads to the schoolhouse and lit a fire in the old stove. When her 15 pupils arrived-some on foot, some on horseback and some, in muddy weather, on tractors-the room was warm and clean; by that time Miss McKinney had swept and dusted the oiled pine floor...
...began with a salute to the flag and the Lord's Prayer. Then Miss McKinney started classes. While she taught one grade, boys & girls in other grades did "busy work" at their desks ("I have no trouble keeping them quiet. They want to learn"). At lunchtime, she and her pupils spread out their vacuum bottles and sandwiches at a long table and ate together. In the afternoon there were more classes, and then sports. Since Miss McKinney never had enough students for two baseball teams, she played first base for both sides ("I'm better at fielding than...
...last week launched a plan to give employees a year's vacation with pay after every six years of work. First to go was Stenographer Nellie Mason, who was required only to 1) spend the time in some constructive way and 2) write the office once a week. Miss Mason will spend her sabbatical year touring...
...quite an operator. Women of all sorts tumble for him like so many roundheeled dominoes, and he clearly qualifies for a fancy future in radio advertising. He knows, to perfection, how to walk into a cushy job by appearing to walk out on it; how to hook a gentlewoman (Miss Kerr) for a soap testimonial; how to turn out a commercial ("Love That Soap") that turns even his own stomach; how to finesse a sharp deal and how to make it stick by the application of blackmail. Above all, he knows how to please his agency's most fearsome...
...Miss Couppey's only other book is Chansons pour Moi, a volume of quiet, unaffected verse. Rumor in the Forest's calm, allegorical reaffirmation of Christ-like love is all the more effective because it too never raises its voice...