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Miss and Langford
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.
`` Oh, come on Miss Langford, play with us just onct '', one of the little girls begged, smiling wistfully.
Jack watched Miss Langford all morning.
`` Miss Langford, come out and play with us like you promised '', several of the little girls called.
`` 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.

Miss and fresh
At Russell Square, Miss Sharp is introduced to the dashing and self-obsessed Captain George Osborne ( to whom Amelia has been betrothed from a very young age ) and to Amelia's brother Joseph Sedley, a clumsy and vainglorious / boastful but rich civil servant fresh from the East India Company.
[...] Avedis displays much concern for his people and allows Miss Tompkins and North plenty of room to give fresh, spontaneous performances.
At the conclusion of his song, Spanky and Alfalfa go to get their ice cream only to find that it has melted, but the kind and clever Miss Lawrence hands the boys two fresh ice cream bars.

Miss and white
... the maid of honor, Miss Annie Stephens, was as pretty as a French pastel, in a directoire costume of yellow satin with a long coat of green velvet sleeves, and a vest of gold brocade ... The bride was a fair vision of youthful loveliness in her robe of exquisite ivory white and satin ... her slippers were white satin wrought with pearls ... an elegant supper was served.
The fictional part includes the discovery of a white blonde jungle queen, the lost daughter of a missionary, played by Miss Booth.
* ‘ Miss Bateman ’ ( white with red stamens )
Carl was recruited to be a member of the Lake County Fourth Grade Marching Band, and because of the Perkins's limited finances, was given a new white shirt, cotton pants, white band cap and red cape by Miss Lee McCutcheon, who was in charge of the band.
She was very upset when commercials promoting the show used a different actress, Marcia Lewis, a white actress, as Miss Hannigan.
Black, white, red and midnight blues create a loud and vibrant edge to a collection with a title as sweet as Miss Francoise.
Miss Sophie decides on appropriate drinks to accompany the menu: Mulligatawny soup ( Miss Sophie orders dry sherry ), North Sea haddock ( with white wine ), chicken ( with champagne ), and fruit for dessert ( with port ) served by James, who finds himself raising ( and emptying ) his glass four times per course.
* Miss Earth necklace and earrings set has a floral and butterfly motif made of 14 karat yellow and white gold.
Dicey asks her to stay temporarily to care for her ailing and elderly white friend and neighbor, Miss Em ( Ethel Barrymore ).
Tom, who has tracked Pinky down, wants her to sell the inherited property, resume her masquerade as a white woman, marry him and leave the south, but she refuses, believing that Miss Em intended her to use the house and property for some purpose.
A job is arranged for her with two white women, Miss Mandy and Miss Giffery, who hire her as a housemaid.
She is a white poodle owned by Muppet diva Miss Piggy.
The main award includes the Miss Belarus crown made out of 100 grams of white gold of ( about ) with half a thousand precious and semiprecious stones.
The most common variety is ' Miss Jekyll ' which has blue flowers, but the more recent ' Persian Jewels ' is a mixture of white, pink, lavender and blue flowers.
Miss Lavendar Lewis-An imaginative, attractive, old maid with snow white hair who Anne and Diana come across on their way to a friend's place. She lives in Echo Lodge.
In the film the person who interviews Miss Jane is white.
" Miss Lillian ," as she was often known, allowed black people to enter her home through the front door, rather than through the back door as was the social norm, and would often have them in her living room for casual conversation just as she would a white neighbor.
Miss Ann is an expression used inside the African-American community, to refer to a white woman ( or sometimes a black woman ) who is arrogant and condescending in her attitude.
The characteristics associated with someone called a " Miss Ann " include being considered " uppity ", or in the case of a black woman, " acting white ".

Miss and dress
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.
Under pressure from Starr, who had obtained from Lewinsky a blue dress with Clinton's semen stain, as well as testimony from Lewinsky that the President had inserted a cigar tube into her vagina, Clinton stated, " I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate.
Guests included Morticia's older sister Ophelia ( also played by Carolyn Jones in the original television series ), Morticia's cousin Melancholia, and Morticia's mother Hester Frump ( played in the 1960s series by Margaret Hamilton, wearing her Miss Almira Gulch dress from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz ).
After being introduced, guests for the interview segment were escorted from backstage by a woman in formal dress dubbed by production staff and listed in the credits as " Ms. Smythe " (" Miss Smythe " until the late 1980s ), always followed by her real name.
She is portrayed in a lavender dress with a feather boa, an archetypal Hollywood starlet much more in keeping with the character of Miss Piggy than Glinda.
After Pip leaves, Miss Havisham's dress catches on fire from her fireplace.
Shortly after being crowned Miss Universe in 2004, Hawkins created news during a fashion show at Westfield Miranda, an Australian shopping centre, when she tripped on the hem of her dress, which fell to the floor.
While no golem is really female, no golem is really male either and when Miss Maccalariat, the head cashier at the Ankh-Morpork Post Office, demanded that only females could clean the female toilets, a golem was given a cotton blue print dress and a woman's name to do the job.
Mr Rucastle would sometimes have Miss Hunter wear an electric blue dress and sit in the front room reading, with her back to the front window.
* Miss Mexico wears dress depicting Cristeros at the 2007 Miss Universe Pageant
" The girls are cared for by Miss Clavel ( often believed to be a nun, though her dress is more that of a nurse, and her title ( Miss ) is also more consistent with that of a nurse than a nun ( who would have been Sister or Mother )).
Academic commentary on the ao dai emphasizes the way the dress ties feminine beauty to Vietnamese nationalism, especially in the form of " Miss Ao Dai " pageants, popular both among overseas Vietnamese and in Vietnam itself.
It was a child's fancy dress costume worn by Miss Rita Lloyd, aged nine, to the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ s Juvenile Fancy Dress Ball ’ at Mansion House in Perth on 8 January 1909.
The New York Times said of her performance, " Not only is Miss Rankin's a voice of power and range, but it is as warm as the red color of the dress she wore.
In one comic strip, Jughead is ordered to try on a wedding dress meant for Miss Grundy since their figures look alike.
Jane agrees and is given money to stay at the nearby Blitz hotel ( under the assumed name of Miss Montresor of New York ) and to buy a dress to wear when she is following the Grand Duchess to the events, during which they will swap dresses when they suspect that a kidnap or murder attempt is imminent.
The girl in the red dress has been traced as staying at the Blitz hotel under the name of Miss Montresor of New York – Jane realizes that she has been set up by a gang of jewel thieves.
These challenges may include creating a garment from non-traditional materials, such as: apartment furnishings ( Season 3 ), recyclable materials ( Season 3 ), items from a grocery store ( Seasons 1 & 5 ), edible food items ( Seasons 1, 4 & 10 ), plants and flowers ( Season 2 ), using their own clothes that they happened to be wearing ( Season 2 ), designing clothing with materials from a party store ( season 8 ) ; or designing for a certain high-profile person ( such as actress Brooke Shields, figure skater Sasha Cohen or Miss USA Tara Conner ); or designing for a corporate fashion line ( e. g., Banana Republic ; Diane von Fürstenberg ; Macy's ; or Sarah Jessica Parker's Bitten ); or centered around a specialized theme ( such as " cocktail party ", " wedding gown ", " female wrestling outfit ", or " prom dress ").
After the match, Miss Kitty stripped out of her dress in celebration and quickly flashed the crowd her breasts.
Lesbian journalist Evelyn Irons – who considered Hall's style of dress " rather effeminate " compared to her own – said that after the publication of The Well, truck drivers would call out on the street to any woman who wore a collar and tie: " Oh, you're Miss Radclyffe Hall ".
Miss Bergdorf dress from Taffy, designer Anne T. Hill, 1956

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