Word: beause
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old girl built like a young Percheron (175 lbs.), so strong that your father, the county jailer, calls you his "handyman" and says you can handle the women prisoners "like sacks of potatoes," you are not likely to have many beaus. Such was the case of Lulu Belle Kimel of Lexington, N. C. Though she was bursting with health and warm-hearted to a degree, the boys did not consider her the village belle. James Godwin, 19, a tough and knowing High Point boy whom they brought to the jail two months ago for beating up and robbing...
...Beaus v. Beaux...
...once, but twice! ''Beaus." My Webster's says "beaux." Which...
...looked for all the world like one of Casanova's memoirs. . . . Thunderous applause and generous bravos (some of these, I suspect, for my extremely feminine thighs and legs, well shown off by smooth. skin-tight trunks in my third-act costume.... I knew that four of my beaus were in the audience. Each one had carefully let me know where he would be sitting. The impulse to play a little joke on them all was too much for me. As the opera went on, I proceeded to sing passionately to each in turn.... I preferred roles that allowed...
Besides mentioning one of her four beaus by name (Lord Robin Innes-Ker), Mme Alda reveals that "my marriage to Gatti was frankly, on my part at least, a marriage after the European pattern; a sensible arrangement between a man and a woman who liked and respected each other. . . ." Her opinion of her successor, Dancer Rosina Galli: "Like me, she had a rather pretty face but too fat a figure." Alda declares that, when she made ready to divorce Gatti-Casazza, she was told that her contract at the Metropolitan would be allowed quietly to expire. Astute, she obtained from...