`` Kezziah, for Miss Kizzie '', he suggested.

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.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

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 ; ;

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.

Most of them had seen Our American Cousin before, and unless Miss Keene was on stage, there was not much to it.

In the audience a man named Ferguson lost his head and tried to rescue a little girl from the mob, on the same principle which had led Miss Harris to demand water.

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.

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.

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.

Going downstairs with the tray, Winston wished he could have given in to Miss Ada, but he knew better than to do what she said when she had that little-girl look.

The velvet smoking jackets, pearl-gray, wine, and blue, which Miss Ada had bought him hung brushed and unworn in the closet.

Miss Ada had been out back, in a straw hat, planting flowers.

He had only agreed with Miss Ada about getting the valet, but he had actually suggested the photograph to Mr. Jack.

Through the door, he had seen Mr. Jack walking around, waiting for Miss Ada.

Miss Ada had giggled, and she went sweeping and rustling to the couch and sank down.

`` I'll give you a medical certificate, framed, if you like '', Miss Ada had said.

Then Miss Ada had stood up, rustling and rustling, and gone upstairs.

Heywood Broun wrote: `` Belle Poitrine is the most original thinker since Caligula '', and even F.D.R. had to concede that `` if the rest of this nation showed the foresight and patriotism of Miss Poitrine, America would rapidly resemble ancient Babylon and Nineveh ''.

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

`` There had been a threesome at the party in the suite's bedroom: Miss Harrington ( this was Diane's choice for a Roman name ), another woman who has figured in other very interesting events and one of your well-known American actors.

So, after the sitting has been held, several readings at one time are mailed, and the distant sitter ( whose name or whose communicator's name was given to the medium ) must mark each little item as Correct ( Hit ), Incorrect ( Miss ), Doubtful, or Especially Significant ( applying to him and, he feels, not to anyone else ).

Miss Upton told the Trustees that the death of Miss Giles was `` the sorest grief '' the Seminary had ever been called upon to bear.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

The governor wrote Miss Grant that he has been concerned for some time `` with the continuous problem which confronts our local and state law enforcement officers as a result of the laws regulating Sunday sales ''.

It seems to have been chosen exclusively from the winners of beauty contests -- Miss Omsk, Miss Pinsk, Miss Stalingr oops, skip it.

Though the subject -- segregation in her native South -- has been thoroughly worked, Miss McCullers uses her poet's instinct and storyteller's skill to reaffirm her place at the very top of modern American writing.

There was something not nice about triplets, though their father seemed pleased, showing no disappointment that they hadn't been the son he wanted, saying, `` You don't see triplets trippin' down the pike ever' day, Miss Jen, hon.

But when Miss Jen went over right away to return the call, Miss Kiz couldn't have been very cordial, for she'd come back before she hardly had time to get there.

there had been the dancing class -- Miss Craddock, thin and tireless, with her supervising wand and her everlasting one-two-three, one-two-three.

We'd been standing right outside Miss Bancroft's door and as I went to turn the knob to enter, I was surprised to find that the door was slightly ajar.

Cousin Emma had simply put Miss Theresa Stubblefield, Rome, Italy, on the envelope, had walked up to the post office in Tuxapoka, Alabama, and mailed it with as much confidence as if it had been a birthday card to her next-door neighbor.

there was much to grok, loose ends to puzzle over and fit into his growing -- all that he had seen and heard and been at the Archangel Foster Tabernacle ( not just cusp when he and Digby had come face to face alone ) why Bishop Senator Boone made him warily uneasy, how Miss Dawn Ardent tasted like a water brother when she was not, the smell of goodness he had incompletely grokked in the jumping up and down and wailing --

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

She is not herself from the aristocracy or landed gentry, but is quite at home among them ; Miss Marple would probably have been happy to describe herself as a gentlewoman.

She had been " Miss Lyon 1929 " and " Miss France 1930 ".

`` All right, if you can't do your arithmetic during school hours you can do it after school is out '', Miss Langford said firmly, not smiling.

According to the myth, Old Order then vanishes at stage left and reappears at extreme stage right, but Director Shuz skillfully sidesteps the rather gooshey problem of stage effects by simply having Miss Arapacis walk across the stage.

She won the pageant and the right to represent Puerto Rico in the 1993 Miss Universe pageant.

Squirrel monkey " Miss Baker " poses with the Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Service she was awarded by the ASPCA after her successful return to earth, the associated medal, and the couch used for her flight ( to the right ).

The author does not devote her talents to the creation of thrills and shocks, but to the orderly solution of a single murder, conventional at that, instead .... Miss Christie is not only an expert technician and a remarkably good story-teller, but she knows, as well, just the right number of hints to offer as to the real murderer.

In Gull's published medical papers, images of Miss A are shown that depict her appearance before and after treatment ( right ).

Bryant became Miss Oklahoma in 1958 and was a second runner-up in the 1959 Miss America beauty pageant at age 19, right after graduating from Tulsa's Will Rogers High School.

Haas ( left ) with Rico Constantino | Rico ( center ) and Jackie Gayda | Miss Jackie ( right ).

On the September 16 edition of Reaction, Nash and Sting were joined by D ' Angelo Dinero, who claimed to have gotten inside information from Bischoff's secretary Miss Tessmacher, that would suggest that Nash and Sting were right about Hogan and Bischoff being up to something.

On the September 16 edition of Reaction, Nash and Sting were joined by D ' Angelo Dinero, who claimed to have gotten inside information from Bischoff's secretary Miss Tessmacher, that would suggest that Nash and Sting were right about Hogan and Bischoff being up to something.

Seated, left to right, Ms. M. Collins, C. J. M. Swierstra ( Assistant Director ), Dr. J. W. B. Gunning ( Director ), Miss R. Leendertz ( Botanical Assistant ) and Ms. S. Viljoen

When the trio arrive at the tryouts in Chicago, they meet taxi dancer " All the Way " Mae Mordabito and her best friend, Doris Murphy, both tough-talking New Yorkers ; soft-spoken right fielder Evelyn Gardner ; illiterate and shy left fielder Shirley Baker ; and pitcher and former Miss Georgia Ellen Sue Gotlander.

In 2010, she ventured into partnership with Tantra Entertainment Private Limited, becoming the president of the " I Am She-Miss Universe India " contest, the winner of which earns the right to represent India at the annually held Miss Universe Pageant.

At Miss Universe, Sen ranked third overall in the preliminaries, right behind preliminary winner Miss Colombia Carolina Gómez, and Miss Greece Rea Totounzi, who ranked second but won the preliminary swimsuit and evening gown competitions.

Charlie Haas ( left ) with Rico ( center ) and Jackie Gayda | Miss Jackie ( right ).

On Monday evening, 4 February 1957, Maureen O ' Hara was proclaimed Miss Naval Aviation of 1957 at the annual Naval Aviation Cadet Recruiting Officers ' Convention by Commander Tom Cates, USN ( left ), and Lieutenant Commander C. G. Hathaway, USNR ( right ).

The facility was humorously referred to in the 2009 movie The Blind Side, when Michael Oher's tutor, Miss Sue, successfully deters him from choosing to attend college at the University of Tennessee by telling him that the school has an " excellent science department " which stores dead bodies in a lab " right under the football field.

Dutta won the annual Gladrags Megamodel competition in her native India in 1995, thus winning the right to enter the 1997 Miss Intercontinental Pageant, in which she took first place.