Word: dame
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Died. Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, 81, grande dame of British politics and symbol of the Liberal Party's intellectual-humanist tradition; in London. The daughter of Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith (1908-16), Lady Asquith became her party's most eloquent spokesman in the 1930s. She was twice defeated for the House of Commons, but in 1964 was granted a lifetime peerage and thus a seat in the House of Lords -from which she berated Prime Minister Wilson for his failure to cope with Britain's economic woes...
...child learning his nursery rhymes, Old Mother Hubbard would go like this: "The old dame piked for the chigrel nook/ For gorms for her ball belljeemer;/ The gorms had shied, the nook was strung,/ And the ball belljeemer had neemer."* Then there were the code names for nonch (not-nice) subjects. To go to bed with a girl was to burlap her, because one day in the 1890s someone walked into the general store, found no clerk, checked the storeroom and found him making love to a young lady on a pile of sacks. The word caught on, although...
Fashion's grande dame, Coco Chanel, 85, held her annual showing-and it was mostly variations on her famed tweeds and pleated skirts-all of which still goes with the ladies of fashion...
...first choice of the Dallas Cowboys, were surprises. It was in fact the first time in the 34-year history of the pro draft that two players from the lowly Ivy League were snapped up in the first round. Save for All-America Quarterback Terry Hanratty of Notre Dame, who was bypassed (presumably because of his injured knee) and later picked up in the second round by the Pittsburgh Steelers, the rest of the midwinter harvest was predictable...
With the audience shouting its approval and clapping along, the buskers put on the biggest one-night pitch in their his tory. Partridge himself sang Rosie and his latest single, Breakfast on Pluto. As much of a hit was the grande dame of busking's elder set: a round, waddling littie woman of 54 known only as Meg, who sang Danny Boy in a round, waddling contralto. Said she: "I only sing classical." The Spoonies, two stubble-chinned men in their 60s named Scottie and Georgie, clattered through Waltzing Matilda, one whacking a banjo, the other clicking two bent...