Word: schoolmarm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Singapore Schoolmarm. Anna arrived in the Far East in November 1849, by 1862 was reduced to teaching school for officers' children in Singapore...
...police-court distortions of legal principles. Gary Grant, Jean Arthur and others resolve-not entirely unselfishly-to open his eyes. Grant is a fugitive from an arson charge. He has been framed by his boss, who burned down his factory to collect the insurance. Miss Arthur, a rather befuddled schoolmarm, just wants to see justice done...
Appalled at these reports, N.E.A.'s retiring President Myrtle Hooper Dahl, a plump Minneapolis schoolmarm, spoke warmly of Britain's example. The British school budget this year is the biggest in its history (?108,000,000), and the government considers education so important that it has recalled 77,000 teachers from the armed forces...
...Caldwell, N.J., a miss just out of high school carefully, quickly smoothes the edges of brass propeller-fittings. Three minutes are allotted to each fitting. In Detroit an ex-schoolmarm holds valve tappets for Wright engines to the light, and feels each one with her fingers. There must be no tiny scratch or rough spot-to wreck a plane, cost a life. In Ford's great bomber hatchery at Willow Run a woman flyer (Mary Elizabeth Von Mach) inspects motors for the big B-24s. In San Diego a young war widow strings numbered wires of an electrical subassembly...
Probably because she doesn't take her role too seriously, Miss Colbert makes a more human schoolmarm than any of her predecessors. Less can be said for Lieutenant Ray Milland, whose death in World War I hardly seems a loss to audience, picture, or Miss Colbert...