Meaning of unschoolmarmish | Babel Free

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Not schoolmarmish.

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“A young man on Minnesota Street and one of the lady teachers in one of the public schools not far from Cass Avenue, having concluded that a consolidation of their joys and sorrows would lead to their mutual advantage, resolved that upon the 17th day of July, 1878, at 8 o’clock in the evening, they would be joined in holy wedlock. […] The young man didn’t know a license was necessary. He begged the minister to go on. The minister respected the majesty of the law and refused. The bride burst into very un[-]school-marmish tears; she sobbed and prayed the hard-hearted clergyman to look upon that wedding outfit and complete the ceremony.”

“So now, stimulated by some further experience with that world which does not care a tinker's damn whether a verb agrees with its subject in number and person or not, she permitted the taxicab to jounce her smile out of all semblance to anything calmly superior and into a very unschoolmarmish grin.”

“He is attracted to an unschoolmarmish schoolmistress, but cannot settle down to Ireland.”

“Alma is an experienced teacher from Manitoba, here for a Refresher Course. She readily fitted into the activities of the School. Many times she added her apt, unschoolmarmish comments to impromptu discussions.”

“You’ll find after-Easter bargains that will tempt you to start from your toes and work right on up to your hat—an utterly frivolous, “un-schoolmarmish” one, please!”

“We tiptoed backstage in search of our second grader and found Mrs. Brown, who handles second graders with humor and affection, leaning against a packing case muffling a hearty case of un[-]school-marmish hysterics.”

““Drat the terms!” replied Durie with unschoolmarmish vigor.”

“She used to sit on the counter, swinging her legs in a very unschool[-]marmish fashion.”

“As Florence Phillips, the unschoolmarmish principal said to me, ‘It’s exciting to be in at the beginning of something and to have a hand in its creation.’”

“Attractive Miss Dawn Mackay, formerly a dancing teacher, who received the controversial appointment as headmistress at Heathfield, Britain’s top girls’ school, has finally spoken out in reply to her critics. […] A soft-voiced, well-groomed decidedly unschoolmarmish Scot, the 32-year-old willow-slim Miss Mackay admits she, too, thought the idea of her appointment a little odd at first.”

“[…] not only an authoritative pedagogue in the distillation of the . . . arpeggios and acciaccaturas . . . is the ever sweet singer of songs ANNE VAJDA . . . whose “unschool-marmish” looks . . . make her a very popular member of our local academy of higher learning […]”

“H. L. Mencken (1880–1956)—let us say it baldly—was not only one of the greatest journalists who ever lived but also one of the best writers of American prose of his time and just conceivably in our whole history. The judgment can stand only if our canons are non-academic. Mencken was impolite, noisy, and unschoolmarmish. He used exaggeration, vituperation, catch-as-catch-can epithets, slang, facetious Teutonisms, facetious Latinisms, sesquipedalian jocularity. Fowler would have execrated him. Any professor would.”

“Corinne Antell, exotic in an East Indian sari I had not seen before, a gold lamé creation that reflected her unschoolmarmish affluence, was politely demure.”

“The door opened, and there stood Miss Ellerby, looking as Miss Ellerby should, unschoolmarmish and casually chic in a silky shirt, faded jeans, and running shoes.”

“When she was barely 20, my mother collected her college degree and, remarkably in the South of the early 1920s, moved hundreds of miles to become a schoolmarm (a very lively and un-schoolmarmish one I am sure) in North Carolina.”

“Little Gottfried is waving a building brick under my nose and saying, ‘Aunt Miesenmaus, Goffi write to Uncle Dietrich too!’ – so I keep having to break off and be auntishly unschoolmarmish. I don’t think any aunt has ever been so besotted with her nephew. I wish I could bring him to see you some time.”

“Mitch knew he was supposed to be impressing Bradenton’s cool and collected lady president, but the pity he’d seen in her eyes at first meeting had gotten his back up before she’d even opened that very unschoolmarmish mouth of hers.”

“He whipped off his hat and sat down quickly, as if obeying a severe schoolmarm. He didn’t know that I was having very unschoolmarmish thoughts just then. My, how handsome he is, I was thinking.”

“She stepped out of it with lean, long, gorgeous, black-stockinged legs and a pair of very unschoolmarmish spike heels.”

“Krissa thought of his arms holding her close, and she found herself stifling a blush. She was thinking very un-schoolmarmish thoughts.”

““It's obvious you’re in love with her,” the very, un-schoolmarmish, woman grinned.”

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