Word: schoolmarms
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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...
Corinne Seeds looks like a mild-mannered schoolmarm. She is a schoolmarm, and she doesn't believe in flaying naughty children alive; but she is doughty rather than diffident. She once taught Mexican women in a boxcar; and she has a zealot's faith in the wonders of progressive education. Ever since she began putting her theories into practice in the University Elementary School, the rolling, residential community of Westwood Hills, Los Angeles, Calif, has hardly known a day of peace...
Emily Griffith was a kind of schoolmarm saint. All Denver revered her as founder and longtime head of far-famed Opportunity School, where, since 1916, the city has provided adults with free "second-chance" classes in everything from welding to hat-making (TIME, July...