Word: schoolmistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...literary attack on the teacher, as Psychologist Charles analyzes it, had its first flowering during the flowering of New England. William Ellery Channing, for instance, seemed to think that the essential qualities of the schoolmarm were "gray hair and spectacles." Of his own schoolmistress he recalled: "Her nose was peculiarly privileged and honored, for it bore two spectacles. The locks which strayed from her close mobcap were most evidently the growth of other times." Clucking sympathetically, Oliver Wendell Holmes struck a similar note. The teacher he described in Elsie Venner was "a poor, overtasked, nervous creature-we must not think...