Word: chudleigh
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...skills of embroidering, beading, dancing and singing were prized in a gentlewoman; reading Greek and Latin was not. As the century wore on, the former qualities became more important to society women like Mrs. Pepys, wife of the English diarist Samuel Pepys. In the words of a contemporary, Lady Chudleigh, women were educated "as if for nothing else designed/But made like puppets, to divert mankind...
...grade whoring in this country," and there is a lot of past evidence to prove him right. George IV had his queen tried publicly for infidelity; in the early 18th century, an Archbishop of York maintained a harem at his palace. The 18th century Christine Keeler was a Miss Chudleigh, who had been the mistress of three peers when George II spotted her at a costume ball, cunningly disguised in a transparent gown. Her Georgian era came between two noble marriages (one bigamous). In the 18th century phrase, borrowed from nautical terminology, Miss Chudleigh had "bottom," or what it takes...
...custom dies hard in England. To Kingsteignton's rescue came Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, who invited the village's ram-roast committee to the deer park of his 3,000-acre estate, let them shoot a buck. With that slight deviation to modern complexities, the village planned to carry on its ancient rite this week. But Kingsteigntonians were still rankled by the irreverent crack of a Communist M.P. during Rayner's plea. The Commie sneered that this was "one of those heathen customs the Conservative Party wants to retain...
Died. William Maxse Meredith, 71, son of the late British Novelist George Meredith; at Chudleigh, England...
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