Word: schoolmarming
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...wife and daughters come to treat him with growing disdain. Luke smells of the pigsty and the good black earth when he comes in from his work; mucky boots are thrown out of door. His wife becomes a country schoolmarm, and then "by 1890 the two little girls, Lizzie and Ellen, had become little dolls, with faces of white china and fair frizzy hair which crimped and rippled down their shoulders. In their stiff, thick-stuffed, many-pleated frocks they looked to him sometimes like little prim old women...
...heavier on it with every page. Ewan, a cool customer who cares for nothing and nobody but himself and his own affairs, finds himself forced into awareness of his fellow-workers. Before he realizes it he is emotionally involved in their plight, and a friendship with a socialistic young schoolmarm rouses his intellectual interest in the economic wherefores...
Deutsch: Then she's just an old-fashioned schoolmarm? Chorus: That's just it! Aldermanic President Deutsch promised to take the matter up with his friend the Chairman of the Board of Higher Education. Next day the Chairman of the Board of Higher Education let it be known that since no complaint had been made against Miss Egan's character or scholarship, he did not consider an objection to her personality very serious. That night Hunter's administrative committee voted to recommend Miss Egan for the deanship. The Board of Higher Education generally follows the recommendations...
Wife, mother, grandmother, schoolmarm, lecturer, editor, charitarian, social service worker, shopkeeper, clubwoman, colyumist, traveler-the nation had been given continuous demonstrations of Mrs. Roosevelt in all these capacities by this week when the time came for her to function formally as First Lady, at the opening of Washington's social season. U. S. women of all ranks and ages were waiting to see how she would perform as hostess of the White House. That Washington's fifth Depression winter would lack Taftian social glitter was to be expected. But busy Mrs. Roosevelt announced two innovations calculated to strip...
...with a French horn, shakes hands with lodge brothers in pretentious uniforms. The white sheets and the fiery crosses of the Ku Klux Klan. The Harding inauguration. Oil derricks. Albert Bacon Fall. The Harding funeral train. Calvin Coolidge squeezed into a school desk over which his wife presides as schoolmarm. Calvin Coolidge in a cowboy suit, hoeing in a smock. Mah Jong. Marathon dances. Beauty contests. Rum row. Judge Webster Thayer leaving the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti. Automobiles being made. Superfluous automobiles being burned. Tin-can tourists in booming Florida. Women in khaki bloomers. Capt. Lindbergh at Mitchell Field. Gertrude...