Word: schoolmarms
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...Harvard colleague founded a school of their own. They and their wives taught and ran it themselves for a few years; but Shady Hill School grew too fast for them. It was then that Philosopher Hocking & Co. went looking for somebody to take over, and found a golden-haired schoolmarm named Katharine Taylor...
...swap of 148 U.S. and British schoolteachers (TIME, Dec. 23) was not all a warm handshake across the sea. Pueblo, Colo, sent a teacher to London, got in exchange a pert, plain-spoken London schoolmarm named Miss Alice Elliott. When the Pueblo Lions Club asked for her honest impressions of U.S. schooling, Teacher Elliott startled the local Lions with a little roaring of her own. Excerpts...
...films, has made an enviable record in Hitchcok's British ventures and the recent "Blithe Spirit." His portrayal of the King is fascinating. Alternating between rugged defense of His Divine Right and a genuine desire to westernize his backward land, the monarch enters a conflict of wits with the schoolmarm who cannot countenance some of the bizarre practices that are placed beyond "progress...
...film is a fairly literal transcription of Margaret Landon's 1944 best-selling biography. Anna (Irene Dunne) is a purposeful widow, handsome in her crinolines, who arrives in Siam clutching her young son by the hand. Having firmly decided against marrying again, she is taking a job as schoolmarm in the gaudy, uncivilized court of King Mongkut (Rex Harrison). The King's domestic arrangements are already pretty well set, what with his hundreds of wives and concubines and an estimated 67 children. There is never a hint of romance between Anna and her difficult new boss. But their...
...nation's best schoolteacher? How can anyone possibly tell? Nevertheless, a sensible, good-natured rural New Jersey schoolmarm was so designated last week. She found the idea "rather silly...