Word: schoolmarmishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pacific Spectator tries hard not to be parochial or schoolmarmish, tries to strike a balance between the critical and the creative, and "as a mark of respectability" pays its contributors $30 an article. Its "Spectator's Appraisal," one of two regular departments, assays such solid stuff as Toynbee's A Study of History and Northrop's The Meeting of East and West. "Tradition and the Skeptic," the other, usually takes the skeptic's side...
Those who saw Cora Hind on her tours through the wheat never forgot her. A sturdy, schoolmarmish spinster, she wore high leather boots, a cowgirl skirt, flat-crowned sombrero, and a beaded buckskin coat which hung to her knees. This getup was discarded in her later years in favor of ill-fitting riding breeches, shirt and high boots. She carried rubber hip boots in case of rain...
...grey-eyed, schoolmarmish New England girl named Gertrude Battles Lane spent her last $10 to get from Boston to Manhattan where, on the strength of her experience as stenographer and part-time editor of the puny Boston Beacon, she got a job with the Woman's Home Companion at $18 a week. Last week Gertrude Lane died, a late-fiftyish spinster, one of the few great women editors* in the U.S., a vice president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., and although she had never asked for a raise, earning $52,000 a year...
...Fontainebleau school is gone. The merriest and best-loved of its teachers, 77-year-old Isidore Philipp (piano), is a penniless refugee in the Pyrenees. Pince-nezed, schoolmarmish Nadia Boulanger, coach of many a young composer, was last seen driving away with her most precious possessions piled high in an automobile. Few other Fontainebleau teachers have been heard from at all. But two pianists, Robert Casadesus and his pretty wife Gaby, are in the U. S. Last week they started up the Fontainebleau tradition at Newport...