

Students sat at my feet absorbing my wisdom
If he went to Vassar why does he pronounce « libary »
Kid, you’ve got an awful lot to learn
—Look, I wish you’d get that teaching job in perspective.
Sigmund Freud, Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens, 1901
(Seventeen years before Janet Leigh, Kim Hunter takes a terrifying shower)
(Le Jardin des femmes)
Miss Pinkerton proceeded to write her own name, and Miss Sedley’s, in the fly-leaf of a Johnson’s Dictionary – the interesting work which she invariably presented to her scholars on their departure from the Mall.
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, chap. I
Prof. Rodney Elwell (Hume Cronyn) and Miss Sarah Pickett (Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch of the West)