Word: schoolmarming
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...Schoolmarm Campbell relaxed, saw that her brood were well wrapped in overcoats, shooed them home...
Second Fiddle displays Sonja as Trudi Hovland, a schoolmarm of Bergen, Minn. who is called to Hollywood because her local swain has sent her photograph to Consolidated Pictures Corp., which has been looking high & low for just such a heroine.* Jimmy Suttou (Tyrone Power), the pressagent sent to Bergen to fetch her, at first treats her merely as Entry No. 436. He agrees that she has no chance for the part but talks her into flying to Hollywood for the trip, with her Aunt Phoebe (Edna May Oliver). After a twirl on the ice with her pupils, Trudi consents. Although...
...Education of John L. Lewis is a process which has notably accelerated in recent years. Credit for the initial polishing of an extremely rough diamond goes to Mrs. Lewis, a onetime Iowa schoolmarm. Like the wife and scion of any prosperous businessman, Mrs. Lewis and her only son John L. Jr. were last week on their way to Europe for a summer vacation. About on a par with the decor of a successful mine superintendent's home is that of John L. Lewis' neat colonial house in Alexandria, Va. There in his lovely garden he now receives...
...black-haired, 21-year-old schoolmarm named Edith Maxwell testified last week in the courthouse at Wise, Va. that such was the innocent beginning of the fatal night of July 20, 1935. The trial judge, a jurist of 76 with stand-up collar around his wrinkled neck and a toothpick poised thoughtfully in the right-hand corner of his mouth, nodded encouragingly. The crowd, native to that end of Virginia which is just across the Cumberland Mountains from Kentucky, solemnly waited to see what the "Gov'ment" would do to a gal who stayed out late and killed...
Last week Editor McAndrew found a subject to his taste in the cover of the Sept. 14 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Artist Norman Rockwell had depicted a young mother turning her unwilling son over to a hatchet-faced, spectacled schoolmarm, switch in hand. All the characters were dressed in costumes...