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Word: damozels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inheritor of Norton's mantle, considers the Fogg's Pre-Raphaelite possessions just as fascinating as they are vapid, but tells his students that they should be considered in relation to the literature of their day. No one could deny that Rossetti's sickly sweet Blessed Damozel (see cut) seemed a little better on reading his verses inscribed on the frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Victorian Surrealists | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of heaven; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Victorian Surrealists | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...following evening, at Mary Baldwin-College for Women, Staunton, Virginia, the Sodality will present as its main feature Debussy's "Blessed Damozel." Winding up its tour on Wednesday, at Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia, it will join the Sweet Briar and Duke Glee Clubs in a presentation of Handel's "Messiah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIERIAN SODALITY LEAVES FOR SOUTH | 3/27/1942 | See Source »

Smilin' through her teeth, redhaired, green-eyed, pink-cheeked Jeanette Mac-Donald, now a matronly 34, plays the dual role of Moony can, a 20th-Century damozel who is shot by a jilted swain (Gene Raymond) at her wedding to Brian Aherne, and Kathleen, the 20th-century ward of the aged bridegroom, who bitterly resents his ward's falling in love with the American son (Mr. Raymond again) of the scoundrel who shot his bride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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