Word: gentlewomen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father of four daughters (one out last year, one coming out in the last batch of debs for this year, and two now doomed to stay "in" forever), admitted: "Candidly, it will be a financial boon." The only truly crestfallen mourners were the battalion of aristocratic British gentlewomen in reduced circumstances who for years have eked out their meager pensions by sponsoring (for fees running as high as ?1,000) the daughters of better-heeled but less nobly born parents. Said Mrs. Rennie O'Mahony, headmistress of Cygnet House, which accepts a fee to train prospective debutantes...
...Ladies. The Mirror itself was as niminy piminy as it could be when it was founded in 1903 by the late great Press Lord Northcliffe as "a newspaper for gentlewomen, produced by ladies of breeding." After less than a year, with its circulation barely at 25,000, Northcliffe decided the paper was a "mad frolic" because "women can't write, and don't want to read." He ordered his editor to fire the staff and start over again, remaking the Mirror as Britain's first popular picture daily. Getting rid of the women, said one of Northcliffe...
...indulges in bland reveries on his numerous seductions. Fellow F.F.V.s who, he remembers, never bought his books will squirm at some of his recollections, if they ever hear about them. Remembers Cabell: "In practice, among the upper circles of the state of Virginia ... a fair number of accessible young gentlewomen whose social standing stayed unquestioned, whether as wives or as spinsters, were no whit averse to extreme amorous dalliance if only you took sane precautions...
...Must Remember." At 33, she took charge of a home for "Sick Gentlewomen in Distressed Circumstances." From then on, God would not wait for Englishmen to muddle through. Despite the Colonel Blimps of the medical corps, she cleaned up the army's medical pestholes in the Crimea. Part sanitary officer, part supply sergeant, and part saint...
...Whatever you take out of a woman in Nursing life before 23 or 24 you more than take out of her at the other end . . . We even prefer not admitting gentlewomen earlier than 26 or 27 for two reasons: one that gentlewomen are younger in knowingness than those who have had to rough it; the other that posts of superintendents will be theirs if they persevere . . . and 24 is too young to superintend...