Word: schoolmarm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pawnshop with the blanket she had stripped from her bastard son, who was dying of consumption. Sometimes Lillian could hear Red, Lem, Butch and Shorty Clapp exchanging local gossip. Others whom Lillian wondered about include: Lawyer Pettigrew, an ambitious politician who had seduced pretty Meg Taylor in the underbrush; Schoolmarm Fisher, who had a lurid mother complex; Rufe Albright, who frolicked in the barn with fat Fanny Rhimer; and precocious young Gregory Beamer, who persuaded Lillian's adolescent sister to bathe in the buff with...
Undergraduates were less caustic. The Maroon student weekly, editorially conceeded that "the school along the Charles River still wields a schoolmarm's rod over the thoughts and actions of most American schoolmen" and crowed that "liberal education has unearthed an invaluable bedfellow...
...Martha Berry, a Georgia schoolmarm, once asked Ford for a $1,000,000 donation to her country school, was listened to politely but received only a Ford dime. Undaunted, she used the dime to start a peanut crop, solemnly sent Ford detailed annual accountings of each year's harvest, eventually bought a piano with the profits of the 100 worth of seeds. Ford was impressed, eventually visited the Berry School, square-danced to the piano, finally came across with more than the $1,000,000 Miss Berry originally asked...
Soap opera's biggest single earner (as high as $250,000 a year) is a 43-year-old ex-Ohio schoolmarm named Irna Phillips. Weekday mornings the 45 characters of her three current shows (The Guiding Light, Today's Children, The Woman in White) troop past an NBC microphone in 45 minutes of virtually nonstop emotionalism. Last week, on the anniversary of her 15th year in radio, Writer Phillips was wrestling with a newly publicized approach to her craft. She called it "social significance...
...sheer voluptuousness, the book's heroine, honey-haired Courtesan Amber St. Clare makes Scarlett O'Hara look like a schoolmarm-a fact that could scarcely escape Hollywood's attention any more than Macmillan's. On the plausible assumption that Forever Amber might be its biggest smash hit since Gone With the Wind, the shrewd house of Macmillan spent a small fortune ($20,000) on advance publicity, and were set to saturate the nation's bookshops with 225,000 advance copies. It was a good bet that before the month was out Amber would be boiling...