Word: damsel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future we as a nation are to espouse every damsel who would be kept, be she designing or just plain willing, we're going to find ourselves in a hell...
...vernal equinox, whether it wants to or not, spring comes to the District of Columbia. On that day, each year, shivering photographers, muffled to the cheekbones, escort a beauteous damsel to the Tidal Basin and tell her to go climb a tree. Usually the Cherry Blossom Queen, posing as regally as possible while sitting on a knobby tree branch, gets runs in her stockings, barked knuckles and a ruffled temper...
...example, last year this time the College was just recovering from two so-called "silly" episodes. The first was when a smitten Freshman tried to make a date with a pretty damsel from Radcliffe. When she refused, he climbed a tree in Cambridge Common, in full view of her window, and stayed there for the better part of seven hours until she relented. While in the tree he composed the following ditty...
...greatest pen-pusher of the last age, "Too Much Johnson" is liable to start you on a laughing jag. Just get in the spirit of the thing. It's blessed with a villain who commands his plantation slaves by shooting a gun over their heads, a blushing damsel, a Frenchman with mustachios and a hero who extricates himself from spots tighter than his 1890 pants. The farce is flavored with one ridiculous situation after another, though it must be admitted that by the end of the second act the punch has waned and only some commendable acting keeps the seats...
...Owen's posters, reminiscent of the childlike, words-of-one-syllable cartoons of Hearstman Nelson Harding, belched and dripped with arson and mayhem, made Europe's troubles look like a chamber of horrors. In one a bolshevik-bearded, Kaiser-helmeted Nazi labeled Absolutism horsewhipped a half-clad damsel named Humanity, while the sausagelike corpses of Liberty and Justice lay strewn behind them across the map of Europe. Circumspect White Committee officials, who feared Painter Owen's horror scenes might affect stomachs rather than sympathies, hung them inconspicuously, hoped nobody would pay much attention to them. "No wonder...