Word: schoolmistress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. John Macrae, 72, longtime president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), famed for his white whiskers, pink shirts, and garrulous letters to the trade; and comely Opal Wheeler, fortyish, musicologist and schoolmistress; he for the second time, she for the first time; in Rosebank, Staten Island...
...most appealing kind of publishing. Some of the latest copies of the Express to reach the U. S. were filled with their usual budget of post-crisis news: the Vicar of Southwold had seen a genuine sea monster offshore, a dog was tried for biting a dustman, a Wiltshire schoolmistress had found a mushroom over eleven inches wide. And across an entire page the Express splashed a row of grinning British faces, exhorted: "GET THE MONDAY MORNING SMILE...
...Quoth schoolmistress Madeira, "It is a great step forward!" She said also that it was a pity that thre are boys who want to go to college, but can't afford it. "It is a disgrace to our country...
...oldest of the Gilman sons and he was the one who best fitted the old Gilman place. A carpenter by trade and inclination, he found plenty to do in his own neighborhood, could not conceive why his more restless brothers wanted to leave home. When Margery Lee, the local schoolmistress, came to board and his brother Jeff courted her with signal unsuccess, Luke understood Jeff's sudden departure. But Luke was pretty sure nothing could change him. Then he fell in love with Margery himself. She hated the country, was consumed with metropolitan ambitions, swore she would some...
...Katharine Hepburn) who lets the dashing Dr. Valentine Brown (Franchot Tone) go off to fight Napoleon, not dreaming that he loves her, and has to win him back after a ten-year hiatus has swallowed up her ringlets. Struck to the heart because he fails to recognize gaunt-faced Schoolmistress Throssel as the girl whom he once compared, in a nice turn of rhetoric, to a garden, she creates a new identity for herself-that of Livvy, her imaginary niece. Artifice having restored the necessary ringlets, dashing Valentine conspires to his own defeat. After succumbing to her petticoat ambush...