Word: damsel
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...weighty matters often called the lord from his hearth. Thus it happened one day, while he was flying in a plane over distant lands, that he chanced to gaze on a well-turned knee, and confessed himself enchanted. The lord looked further, and saw a dark-haired damsel with a violin in her lap. Much smitten by the woman, who was proficient enough to play in the Sydney Symphony and pretty enough to model, the lord determined to bide his time but to renew the acquaintance once they were back in Merrie England...
...kitchy-kitchy-koo girls for Broadway's standard Babylonian revels. Captain Sanjar, who has dallied with the Princess Barbára, is ordered to trial by her father, the King. He must open one of two doors behind which lurk, respectively, a hungry tiger and a nubile damsel. The skit preserves the tricky non-ending from Frank Stockton's The Lady or the Tiger?, but it scarcely matters. To fill in the non-beginning and the non-middle, the dancing girls thrash around like palm trees in a tropical hurricane. A hurricane has a better plot...
...Maiden Fair. The story takes place Far Away (south of France, north of Italy) and Long Ago (end of the 16th century). The heroine, a young Frenchwoman Of Gentle Birth named Emily St. Aubert, is a Damsel In Distress-Alone In the Cold Cruel World with only her Lofty Principles to guide her. She is beautiful and dutiful, weeps for 30 pages at a stretch, faints wherever the carpeting permits, seeks refuge from the "vices of the world" in the "beauties of nature and the nicer emotions of the mind." She sketches, plays the lute, offers helpful hints to harried...
...theatrical vehicle, Prokofiev's libretto is so outlandish as to be curiously fascinating and, at times, good fun. Based on a Gothic tale by the Russian symbolist writer Valery Bryusov, Angel is set in 16th century Germany and revolves, or rather, rolls around a fetching young damsel named Renata (Soprano Eileen Schauler). Unfortunately, she has an advanced case of the screaming meemies. In the first act she bares her problem in a long aria while writhing around the stage on her stomach...
...lovely damsel on the right will throw her bouquet to the public Monday at 1 p.m. in front of the Hasty Pudding. She is Lee Remick, the Pudding's Woman of the Year...