headmaster

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In school, his headmaster is aware that Max is a Jew and he makes no bones about exploiting his weaknesses, especially psychically.

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  • Although assistant masters might scurry like flunkeys to keep an appointment with the headmaster, his was the more leisurely gait of the ambassador. —  Twelve Horses and the Hangman's Noose - Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 29
  • Tell her about the wood shavings It being my custom, as the headmaster is aware, to take a Good Look Round before I lock up of a night, I become cog ny sant, the day after the Dame last come here, of wood-shavings in the woodwork room. —  Twelve Horses and the Hangman's Noose - Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 29
  • The composition of the frame has a logic of its own: the towering headmaster, the (for once) submissive Barbara, forced to sit and listen to accusations. —  Digital Poetics
  • In school, his headmaster is aware that Max is a Jew and he makes no bones about exploiting his weaknesses, especially psychically. —  ComicList Headlines
  • I was talking to a headmaster, and he told me that there is a lot of evidence that children —  Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0
 

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