Word: schoolmistress
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...Schoolmistress McMahon's leg is mending well, though she is still not sure how soon she can go home. She is delighted with the hospital and the treatment she has had; speaking no French, she has found it a comfort to be cared for by English-speaking doctors and nurses. (The doctors include three Americans, five Britons and a Canadian; the 100 nurses are of nine nationalities...
...Yellow," said another. "The only Emily I ever met was an enormous black Madrassi ayah," wrote a Mr. Mclntyre. "I regret his limited social opportunities," answered Miss Sitwell, "but I cannot be held responsible for them." One phase of the argument was at last tied down when a schoolmistress named Josephine Malone reported a mistake in a sixth-form handbook of poetry, in which the editor had fastened Emily-colored hands on to Poetess Sitwell. Last week the battle died with the publication of this conclusive letter...
...Victorian squire's spinster daughter will continue to go to church. But "no Labor people will go. . . because going to church means you are Conservative. The bell-ringers may continue because of the pleasure of ringing and because they admire Winston Churchill. The schoolmistress will not go . . . because being semi-educated and class-conscious, she has 'theories' about religion and regards the parson as too dogmatic...
...elderly schoolmistress aunt introduced young Christopher to the beauties of English by reading to him from the Bible and The Pilgrim's Progress. At eleven he wrote his first play, a farce, at twelve his first poem, at 14 his first verse play, never produced. Young Fry did not do well in school, stood last in his class in English...
...programs start off with the rattle of machine-gun fire or the whine of airplane propellers, might have trouble believing the news. A new BBC show for British moppets, called Listen With Mother, is a thoroughgoing success. The program begins each day with the calm, reassuring voice of onetime Schoolmistress Jean Sutcliffe inquiring: "Are you sitting quite comfortably...