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- n. Plural form of schoolmarm.
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Just try and sign your kid up for an elite junior hockey league that plays sixty games between July 4th and Labor Day and the same schoolmarms who are up in arms about childhood obesity complain about too much emphasis on sports.
Can Bone-Munching Zombie Worms Help Fight Childhood Obesity?
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They are much more discerning and demanding than schoolmarms Brokaw and Friedman choose to believe.
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And those apples were not meant for keeping the doctor away or giving to prairie schoolmarms.
Kurt Michael Friese: The Hard Truth of Johnny Appleseed, and a Recipe with Hard Cider
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Here's an unbearably haughty 881 words from the schoolmarms at the New York Times editorial page complaining about the "tone" of the campaign and suggesting what we really need is more debate of the issues.
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| Reply | Permalink it's definitely not pompous to call all obama supporters "schoolmarms."
Hillary Pollster: "Kindergarten Attack" On Obama Was Just A Gag!
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Jay wrote on December 4, 2007 1: 34 PM: it's definitely not pompous to call all obama supporters "schoolmarms."
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Supposedly, talking on a cellphone even hands-free is "as bad as driving drunk", which only suggests that driving drunk ain't as bad as the schoolmarms suggest, at least not for 0.08 or so.
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In any event, pointing out that people who say “you want people to take drugs do you?” are normally the same kind of po-faced schoolmarms who react in horror when they learn that young men might wear baggy trousers and listen to that rap music or that a young lady might drink a pint of ale rather than a decorus glass of white wine can also do the trick.
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The developers are waiting for society to degrade to the point where the many explicit, graphic and close-up sex scenes are considered acceptable to sell to teenagers and schoolmarms.
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Unlike the schoolmarms of old Singapore, who rigidly stood at the front of the room, she moves from monitor to monitor, advising students.
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