Word: schoolmarming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Julius Caesar, another Ides of March was ahead, though this time the main conspirator looked more like Fanny Farmer than Cassius. She is a serious Midwestern schoolmarm, with a bent for poetry, baking cakes, and puttering in a garden. But if Miss Lenore Geweke (pronounced gave-a-key) has her way-and she well might-Latin beginners all over the U.S. will no longer fight their way through Caesar's trim, tight prose...
...freedom shivered a little in the anti-Communist wind: ¶A New York State Supreme Court justice ordered the Buffalo school board to reinstate Teacher Eleanor Dushane, and give her $1,000 in back pay. Principal Charles J. Costello of Buffalo's East High had charged the fortyish schoolmarm with insubordination, subversive activity and inefficiency. Her real offense: posting a classroom notice of a lecture by PM Pundit Max Lerner...
Schoolteachers sometimes let go. That's what Clara Inter did. She was a demure young Hawaiian schoolmarm, teaching English grammar to youngsters from the plantations. One day, while singing with a native chorus for some mainland tourists, Clara impulsively stepped out of line and let fly a few lyrics of The Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai, She followed it up with a naughty burlesque of the hula...
...Camden, N.J., two tomcats, Pitty Sing and Budgie, were formally adjudged the beneficiaries of the $36,000 estate of Sarah Y. Furber, a retired schoolmarm...
This time it was going to be different. Michigan's white-haired Homer Ferguson had the wary air of a schoolmarm with a roomful of restless kids. Under his watchful direction, the Senate War Investigating subcommittee last week gingerly reopened its inquiry into Howard Hughes's $40 million war contracts for one huge flying boat and three XF-11 photo-reconnaissance planes...