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  • With any luck she'd have made it to being head of a nice Comp somewhere - and we would not have had to endure her priggish schoolmarming.

    Jacqui gives it up 2008

  • If you want a woman in an old western town, there are only three occupations open to her, hooking, schoolmarming, and anyone called Ma.

    RogerEbert Headlines 2010

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