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She had taken him out of the schoolhouse and closed the school for the summer, after she saw Miss Snow crack Joel across the face with a ruler for letting a snake loose in the schoolroom.

Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.

Meanwhile, Miss Sinister knocks Daken unconscious and has him taken to the medlab in the mansion's basement.

The impasse is broken by the return of Miss Prism, whom Lady Bracknell recognises as the person who, twenty-eight years earlier, as a family nursemaid, had taken a baby boy for a walk in a perambulator ( baby carriage ) and never returned.

Others, like political leaders Ruben Berrios and Fernando Martín, and the 2002 Miss Puerto Rico, who is a Viequense, have had pictures taken by the press aboard VAL planes while flying to Vieques, giving the airline a new wave of unpaid-for promotional attention.

The name is said to be taken from the maiden name of his wife Miss Bloomer and his son-in-law Mr. Merifield.

Having taken off from Misawa, Japan, pilots Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr. safely belly-landed their Bellanca airplane Miss Veedol on a nearby airstrip known then as Fancher Field.

Since Parks ' departure, many have taken on the role of Miss America TV host.

The family discovers that Miss Quentin has run away in the middle of the night with a carnival worker, having found the hidden collection of cash in Jason's closet and taken both her money ( the support from Caddy, which Jason had stolen ) and her money-obsessed uncle's life savings.

In Ian Fleming's first draft of Casino Royale, Moneypenny's name was originally " Miss ' Petty ' Pettaval ", which was taken from Kathleen Pettigrew, the personal assistant to MI6 director Stewart Menzies.

Having taken ( and failed ) a correspondence course in psychology, she attempts to apply psychoanalytic principles to her husband and Miss Trixie.

Kid Flash suggests naming the animal " Krypto ", to which Miss Martian replies the name is already taken.

While the first three may be ( and usually were ) taken as Doctor Who by another name, the departure here of the Miss Brown character ( for which Nicola Bryant had not used her Peri Brown American accent ) and the Stranger himself being likewise " returned to his proper time and place " at the story's conclusion allowed for a move to divorce the series from any such notions.

A decision had to be taken as to whether he return to America for the start of the new series or remain in the United Kingdom and marry Miss Lumley ( he never returned to America ).

Beginning in 2009 ( with episodes filmed in 2008 ), Julia McKenzie has taken over the role of Miss Marple.

Twenty minutes later Miss Monro is hit by a car and killed, while number Four had taken her latch-key, gone into her flat and stolen the photograph.

The advanced students in physics of those days will always remember the zeal with which Miss Whiting immediately set up an old Crookes tube and the delight when she actually obtained some of the very first photographs taken in this country of coins within a purse and bones within the flesh.

Rachel Smith, Miss Tennessee Teen USA 2002 and Miss USA 2007 ( image taken in 2007 )

On 23 April 1928, he and Miss Irene Savidge were sitting in Hyde Park in London when they were arrested by two plain-clothes police officers and taken to the nearest police station, where they were charged under the Parks Regulation Act 1872 with committing an indecent offence.

Valentine killed Miss Fang and burned down Shan Guo's Northern Air fleet, leaving them helpless to stop London as a fleet from another League airbase would have taken several weeks to arrive.

* In the Emilie Autumn song " Miss Lucy Had Some Leeches ," the concept of seemingly dark / profane phrases turning into innocuous words is taken further, although sung in the same style and tune as the original.

* In the film Little Miss Sunshine, the character of Dwayne has not spoken in nine months due to a vow of silence he has taken until he can get into the US Air force Academy.

The position of the Lower School's first head is taken by Miss Leah K. Hamblett MA whose school title is technically Assistant Head-Lower School, but as with all female teachers at school will be addressed as " Miss ".

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

Looking back, Miss Marsicano feels that her ideas may have been influenced by those of Jackson Pollock.

Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;

Yet this passion for passion, now that I look back on it with passion spent, seems somewhat overblown and operatic, though as a diva Miss Millay perfectly controlled her notes.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.

Juanita drooped about the place, wearing a haunted, brooding look, which Kate attributed to the baby's death, until the day a letter came for her addressed to `` Miss Juanita Fitzroy '', bearing a Grafton postmark.

Kate had walked past the school on her morning chores and had seen the whole incident, had seen Joel's burning humiliation before Miss Snow's cold, bespectacled wrath.

In the living room, Miss Ada was standing by the window with a sheaf of lists in her hand.

Miss Sally May Saabye, ( Miss Rhode Island 1960 ) says that within a short time -- on June 17th -- her reign will come to an end.

As Charles Evans Hughes said, `` Miss Poitrine's limitations as an actress are exceeded only by her logic as a litigant ''.