schoolmarm

Or Boston's schoolmarm-ish Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which features the grim series, Profiles in Improvement.

Ill stop at the schoolhouse and see the schoolmarm, he said, and ask what is to be done, though I know she will laugh at me.

“I appreciate your confidence—your telling me of your life,” said the Schoolmarm, in lieu of something better.

The Schoolmarm scarcely knew what to say; his explanation seemed so entirely satisfactory to himself.

In confusion, “Babe” began to remove his spurs, thereby serving notice upon the Schoolmarm that he had “come to set a spell.”

Susie had felt herself rebuffed, and, like the Schoolmarm, Ralston had laughed at her with his eyes.