31. Faced with those kinds of scheduling headaches, Mitchell at times sounds more like a scolding schoolmarm than a powerful congressional leader. 32. Sally Jackson-Smith, a waitress with a schoolmarm 's glare, went to the door to shoo them away. 33. Both have tidy hairstyles and stand as straight as schoolmarms ; they're nice-looking but more mousy than snappy. 34. It was more schoolmarm than " Madame " in this collection, which paid attention to good cut and fabrics. 35. You have reduced me to a schoolmarm , at which I am uncomfortable because I am unaccustomed to treating adults as children. 36. Both have neatly coiffed hair and stand as straight as schoolmarms ; they're nice-looking but more mousy than snappy. 37. Ina Boon stood at the church lectern and, like a sage schoolmarm , shared some lessons from her years in civil rights. 38. The proper schoolmarm who forwards sexually explicit jokes can distance herself from words that aren't, after all, her own. 39. It's easy to picture Nanci Griffith as a schoolmarm , bustling into classrooms with an autoharp and well-thumbed songbook. 40. A Harvard student dressed as a staid schoolmarm made Scorsese repeat the grammatically correct phrase " To whom are you speaking ?"
