Word: distaff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Celanese Theater (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). The Distaff Side, with Celia Johnson...
Harvard upper-classmen are singing a new version of Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight. They want more time to entertain their dates in dormitories on weekends. At present the distaff side must...
Poor "Lizzie" Peabody. "Busybody" might have been a better name. She was such a congenital, selfless do-gooder, almost too perfect a distaff product of New England's 19th Century intellectual flowering. As a child of four in Salem, Mass., she was already envious of Neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister Ebe, who was six and reading Shakespeare. Twenty-nine years later (1837) when future brother-in-law Nathaniel published his Twice-Told Tales, Liz sang his praises so busily that Hawthorne got tired of her. Once during the Civil War when Liz decided that Abraham Lincoln was running...
Three weeks ago, at the winter get-together of the Gridiron Widows, the distaff side of the Gridiron Club, "Evie" cast an appraising eye over "Bootsie's" figure. Sweetly, she remarked that Bootsie, who gave birth to a son six months before, looked quite "robust." In her next column, Evie elaborated on her suspicions: "The stork, so 'they' say, is once more hovering some distance over the William Randolph Hearst Jrs.' . . . house, right on the heels of William Randolph Hearst III's first encounter with this bitter old world . . ." Washington dowagers and debutantes, who find...