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The headmaster's wife at St Cyprian's School, Mrs. Cicely Vaughan Wilkes ( nicknamed " Flip "), taught Orwell English and used the same method to illustrate good writing to her pupils.
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The following year he was appointed an examiner of Bible knowledge at Woodhouse Grove School, a Wesleyan academy where, aged 35, he met his future wife, Maria Branwell, the headmaster's niece.
She later claimed the headmaster's wife there beat her and forged her grades to hide the fact that young Lucille spent far more time working, primarily cooking and cleaning, rather than being able to study academically.
Teacher's wife is called Mrs Teacher, the headmaster's brother's name is Mr Headsbrother and the children's parents ( who look almost exactly the same as their children ) are called Plug's Dad and such, even in flashbacks when they are themselves children.
In 1919 the headmaster's wife, Mrs Garood, started a new school for younger boys ; Sevenoaks Prep School started with six pupils in the school " Cottage Block ".
Before her departure, she reveals her true identity to the headmaster's wife and requests her to hand over a jade pendant to Liang as a betrothal gift.
* Joan Blackmore, headmaster's wife, represented Ireland at fencing and hockey
When she was summoned home by her father, Ying Tai revealed the truth to her headmaster's wife.
Seeing this, the headmaster's wife told him about Ying Tai, gave him the jade pendant and bade him to go propose to her.
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One is where individuals leave one at a time, for instance at a doctor's office, hospital, or outside a school headmaster's office.
After attending a school at Knowle, he was sent to Rugby School under Dr James, but took offence at the headmaster's review of his work and was removed at Dr James ' request.
The headmaster's house was completed at the same time as the main school building, and had five bedrooms wired with electric bells, and a bathroom plumbed with hot and cold water.
The headmaster's house at Trinity was erected circa 1877.
For some time it continued to have boarders in Riversdale ( an old house ), which also functioned at times as the headmaster's house.
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In 1839 the National School, later St Andrew's Church of England School, was built with the earlier school in a small cottage, which still stands, became the headmaster's house.
* St Edmund's School, Canterbury, Kent: headmaster's house, 1897
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During WWI, the school merged with Boston based Volkman School, which had faced a drastically declining student population due to the headmaster's German origins.
School House contains administrative offices including the school reception, headmaster's and deputy headmaster's offices.
" The Bowen Bridge Road National School " consisted of a simple wooden building and headmaster's house erected on a stone foundation and opened on 17 July 1865 on Bowen Bridge Road, adjacent to Thondley's Farm.
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At Eton, John Vaughan Wilkes, his former headmaster's son recalled, "... he was extremely argumentative — about anything — and criticising the masters and criticising the other boys .... We enjoyed arguing with him.
The headmaster's son, Charles Cowden Clarke, also became an important mentor and friend, introducing Keats to Renaissance literature, including Tasso, Spenser, and Chapman's translations.
The system of having the heir of a martial arts school be the previous headmaster's son ( either natural or adopted for the sake of succession ) was common in koryū ( traditional schools ) and is referred to as iemoto.
In more recent years it has served as the headmaster's office.
Shortly afterwards Dickinson was expelled from Oundle for urinating in the headmaster's dinner.
Schools lost elected parents councils and faculty advisory boards, with all authority being put in the headmaster's hands.
Under the new headmaster's efforts, the standard of non-academic endeavours of students were greatly improved, and a number of competition prizes were brought back to the school as a result.
Fry gained the headmaster's permission to study Thucydides instead of Maths, but dispensed with the subject for the rest of his academic career.
The old headmaster's house in now the Joskeleigh Museum, and around thirty Islander families still live in the community.
Today, it is an occasion when the school is on display-there are exhibitions, musical performances, the school play, sporting events, as well as prize-giving and the headmaster's speech, culminating with the Rhetoric Ball and Rhetoric Mass the following morning.
Almost all pupil records were saved but books, furniture and the large collection of previous headmaster's portraits were lost.
It is usually used for the headmaster's start-of-term and end-of-term address.
* Singing: A few times each semester, students gather outside the headmaster's office to sing for him.
* The mothballing of the former headmaster's study and office areas for use as a future Year 13 study centre.
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Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.
Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.
As they stood at the first-class rail, waving down to his wife and Casanova below, Lewis said, `` Earl, there is Gracie's future husband ''.
Every man who dabbles in the market to make a little easy money on the side and suffers losses could at the time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so dumb.
They've got a big vulture from Tanganika at the zoo here, with a wife for him, too, very rare birds, both of them, the only Vulturidae of their species outside Africa.
A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on `` The Civic Spirit of the Southland '', in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside.
Having ( through my unflagging effort and devotion ) achieved stardom, a fortune and a world-renowned wife at an age when most young men are casting their first vote, Letch proceeded to neglect them all.
Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.
In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.
Toasting in champagne one night at the embassy, he hoisted his glass to a senator's wife and gaily cried: `` Up your bottom ''!!
Shea and his wife, Nori, make their home at Sands Point, L. I..
Tell that to the little wife when she moans at the woman's burden!!
Mrs. Alice H. Reese, wife of an engineer and mother of a 23-year-old son, was awarded the top prize at a luncheon in the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
More than 300 teenagers last Sunday proved there is and as many more are expected to prove it again for Jim Kern and his wife Lynn from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church.
The best approach, he figured, was to try to influence young people like the high schoolers he and his wife serve as advisors at First Presbyterian Church.
`` This is a great national cultural asset, and therefore it is a great source of satisfaction to me, representing as I do today my wife, to welcome all of you here today at the White House ''.
You wonder if he looks at his wife now and thinks of you.
When Bobbie Evans smashed up his car, the Jaguar his wife Linda had given him for his last birthday, and himself quite thoroughly with it, driving back from an afternoon's golf at Oakmont, it seemed to mark the end of a long, miswritten chapter in the social life of the community.
In 1946, van Vogt and his first wife, Edna Mayne Hull, were co-Guests of Honor at the fourth World Science Fiction Convention.
At the end of The Murder at the Vicarage, the Vicar's wife is pregnant.
A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in 1930 during a speech at a cricket luncheon.
In 1802 Ampère was appointed a professor of physics and chemistry at the École Centrale in Bourg-en-Bresse, leaving his ailing wife and infant son in Lyon.
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