And so when Miss Langford came to teach at the one-room Chestnut school, where Jack was a pupil in the eighth grade, the Woman of Jack's mind assumed the teacher's face and figure.

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

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

He hung around the schoolhouse, watching through a window from outside while Miss Langford straightened desks and put the room in order.

About that time Miss Langford straightened up and looked out the window directly at him, he thought, although probably she didn't even see him.

A nude imaginary picture of Miss Langford flashed across Jack's mind.

`` I might try it one of these days '', Jack said wonderingly, thinking of Miss Langford.

Miss Langford, in a fresh white dress and low-heeled white sandals, without socks, was out there with them, trying to get them inside.

`` Oh, come on Miss Langford, play with us just onct '', one of the little girls begged, smiling wistfully.

Jack watched Miss Langford all morning.

`` Maybe '', Jack said idly, watching for Miss Langford.

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.

`` Will you play with us again, 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.

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

`` 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.

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.

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

Doc Dunne and Miss Sis had come.

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 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 --

She recognizes her freedom to come and go as she pleases saying, " Ah is free, Miss Scarlett.

Others come to take in some of the local festivities which include the annual Blessing of the Bikes ( in which thousands of motorcyclists come from around the United States ) and Troutarama, in which two of the biggest events are the annual parade and the Miss Lake County pageant.

Steinbeck's contemporary, Nathanael West's two most famous short novels, Miss Lonelyhearts, which plumbs the life of its eponymous antihero, a reluctant ( and, to comic effect, male ) advice columnist, and the effects the tragic letters exert on it, and The Day of the Locust, which introduces a cast of Hollywood stereotypes and explores the ironies of the movies, have come to be avowed classics of American literature.

Whenever anyone needed to make a call ( via Miss Paulifficate the Castle operator ), he or she would stand under the cage, look up and signal for the cage to come down.

Alain Locke writes in a review, " when will the Negro novelist of maturity, who knows how to tell a story convincingly -- which is Miss Hurston's cradle gift, come to grips with motive fiction and social document fiction?

However, she did not come to prominence on television until she featured in monologues written for her by Alan Bennett from 1978 ( A Visit from Miss Protheroe ) and later Victoria Wood in the 1980s.

Both songs come from the musical Miss Saigon.

The second season reveals that Superman has come to view him as a brother and he has broke up with his girlfriend, Miss Martian, who disapproved of her reckless use of telepathy and her attempt to make him forget about a fight they had.

A passage from Alan Moorehead ´ s The White Nile ( p. 61 ) describes it thus: " The sportsman Samuel Baker and his wife had come up the Nile to look for them, and there had been others as well who had arrived at Gondokoro on the same mission, three Dutch ladies, the Baroness van Capellan and Mrs and Miss Tinne, but they had been forced to return to Khartoum through sickness.

" Since then, the Cook family has raised questions about whether the body is indeed that of Eleanor Cook, and some investigators have come to believe that Eleanor's body may have been another of the unclaimed bodies from the fire and not Little Miss 1565.

No witch actually has spiders ' webs in her cottage or keeps skulls for any reason, but most simple folk expect witches to do so, and so Miss Treason obliges them ; the better to ensure that when people come calling they don't see what is really there, ( a tired, blind 111-year-old woman ,) but what they expect, ( a venerable, terrifying 113-year-old witch.

In the morning, Miss Hardbroom bans both Mildred and Ethel from attending the Halloween ceremonies-the only chance Mildred would have had to come into contact with a magician who could turn Algernon back into a human.

His evocative and haunting stories in Rubber Blanket, notably " Near Miss ," " Dead Dog ," " Discovering America ," and " Big Man ," set the stage for his work to come.

Penelope Anne Coelen, or Penny to her friends and fans, was elected Miss World and was the first major international titleholder to come from Africa.

Other characters that come to the aid of the girls, willingly or not, are Meister Haifisch, the Count's lawyer ; Doctor Cadaverezzi, a fraudulent magician employing Max as an assistant, who takes Lucy in as a part of his act ; Eliza, Miss Davenport's helper and Max's lover ; Hildi's mother, a tavern owner ; and Hildi's brother, Peter, a huntsman hiding from the law.

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.

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.

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

That done, I told Miss Groggins to take her patient back to bed and again put her out of my mind.

The other possibility is to make arrangements for her to let out one or two of the rooms to some teacher of good family or one of those solitary old ladies that Tuxapoka is populated with -- Miss Edna Whittaker, for example.

Likewise, it is Miss Marple herself who poses as a maid to find out the facts of the case, not a young friend of hers who has made a business of it.

Miss Julia Elliott, a school teacher from Griffin, Georgia was singled out from many people who suggested " Falcons " as the Nickname for the new Georgia NFL franchise.

A third grade project growing out of the day to day life of the nearby Hudson river became one of the most celebrated units of the school, a unit on boats, which under the guidance of its legendary teacher Miss Curtis, became an entrée into history, geography, reading, writing, arithmetic, science, art and literature.

It contains a number of running jokes, including Miss Sweetie Poo, a little girl who repeatedly cries out, " Please stop: I'm bored ," in a high-pitched voice if speakers go on too long.

In the end, Miss Evans ( who had previously appeared on the Strong Women special but had lost out to curate Emma Langley ) defeated Basil Brush, winning £ 2, 710, which she split with her co-finalist to give to charity.

At the age of five or six, Brodess hired her out to a woman named " Miss Susan " as a nursemaid.

Miss Desjardin and school principal Henry Grayle both resign, consumed with guilt over not reaching out to Carrie sooner.

Safire pointed out that it would be equally incorrect to call her " Miss Ferraro " ( as she was married ), or " Mrs. Ferraro " ( as her husband was not " Mr. Ferraro ")— and that calling her " Mrs. Zaccaro " would confuse the reader.

The American Heritage Book of English Usage states that: " Using Ms. obviates the need for the guesswork involved in figuring out whether to address someone as Mrs. or Miss: you can ’ t go wrong with Ms.

Proponents of gender-neutral language point out that while Mr is used for men regardless of marital status, the titles Miss and Mrs indicate a woman's marital status, and thus signal her sexual availability in a way that men's titles do not.

', and then gone out there and been Miss Black America.

After the show's second season, NBC sold the series off into syndication with the Good Morning, Miss Bliss episodes included to pad out the syndication package, despite the plot-continuity problems and production changes.

Once, when he sought out Miss Grundy's help as he dabbled in creative writing, she suggested that he write about what he knew.

" Tiny Tim: " I don't know, Miss Goldie, I've never been out with one.

Later, Miss Daisy, a retired schoolteacher, finds out that Hoke is illiterate and teaches him how to read.