Word: schoolmistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wiles over schoolmates and grandmother and spreads her poison-The Children's Hour has the lure of mounting melodrama. It is with the last act that something at once harsher and more humane begins to blow through the story, and with the very last scene-when the surviving schoolmistress faces an enlightened, remorseful old lady-that the play takes on, emotionally and morally, a sense of the tragic...
...biggest prize of all was Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the black-bearded Kikuyu who runs the Kenya African Union (K.A.U.). A London-trained anthropologist still legally married to a blonde Sussex schoolmistress, Kenyatta (baptized Johnstone Kamau) spent the '30s in Moscow as a student guest of the Kremlin, returned to Kenya to spread the Red gospel. K.A.U. (membership: 100,000) ostensibly seeks home rule for Kenya, but is more likely a screen for Communist and anti-Christian propaganda among Kenya's 5,000,000 blacks. In the hymnbooks used in 300 bush schools supervised by K.A.U., Jomo Kenyatta...
...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...