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Noun
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools employs more than 18,000 people, ranging from teachers and principals to assistants, custodians and secretaries.—
Gavin Off,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Jan. 2025 -
Roxanne Martinez, a school board member with the Fort Worth Independent School District, said district officials were aware of and investigating a social media post purportedly written by a North Side High School teacher that seemed to invite immigration officers to arrest students at their school.—
Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports,
arkansasonline.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this curious, eccentric role as a 1930s schoolmistress who takes four young girls under her wing — for better and for worse.—
Christina Newland,
Vulture,
2 Oct. 2024
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Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.—
Duane Byrge,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Sep. 2024
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Get Discounts and Lift Tickets at Other Mountains Another wallet win: instructors get access to a wide range of pro discounts.—
Lizzy Rosenberg,
Outside Online,
26 Jan. 2025
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The trial revealed that though Chris worked as a golf instructor, his primary financial support came from Carson, who gave him $35,000 annually and bought him cars and a home.—
Julie Tremaine,
People.com,
25 Jan. 2025
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In order to get The Mikado off the ground, the two composers need to get everyone onboard: the old actors, the new boys, the producers, the choreographer, the costume designer, the stagehands, the orchestra … to say nothing of their wives and mistresses back home.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
9 Dec. 2024
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That signaled that the series would become an anthology, after Season 1 starred Jake Gyllenhaal as prosecutor Rusty Sabich, who was accused of murdering his colleague and mistress.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
29 Oct. 2024
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Jonathan Bailey also stars as Fiyero, Ethan Slater as munchkin Boq, Michelle Yeoh as headmistress Madame Morrible, Peter Dinklage as Dr. Dillamond and Jeff Goldblum as The Wizard.—
George Monastiriakos,
Newsweek,
31 Dec. 2024
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Neither the stage production nor the musical can do much with the melodramatic Madame Morrible, the headmistress at Shiz who becomes a key player in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz’s fascist machinations.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Dec. 2024
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The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession.—
Patrick Frater,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2023
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His main teacher was Leon Russianoff, a leading clarinet pedagogue of the latter half of the 20th century, after whom Mr. Drucker would name his son.—
Daniel J. Wakin,
New York Times,
20 Dec. 2022
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On the other side of the room, a wooden schoolmaster’s desk is another cherished piece.—
Lennie Omalza,
The Courier-Journal,
20 June 2024
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In the original Irving tale, the character of Katrina — the young woman in Sleepy Hollow who schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and prankster Brom Bones covet as a future bride — has only a small part.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Oct. 2023
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The latest Metro news Image School closings: An elementary schoolteacher in Montclair, N.J., was arrested after making a threat against a principal that prompted officials to close the schools.—
James Barron,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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Also Friday, the State Department said an American schoolteacher arrested in Russia on drug charges more than four years ago has been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained.—
DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS,
arkansasonline.com,
28 Dec. 2024
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