Word: ladyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chuckled the New York Sun, rehearsing the incident in the present tense: "The world cannot but wish that for once she will not remember she is a lady. She should shake him firmly by the shoulder and shout, 'Franklin, answer me!' "
Chief drawing-card at a charity fête in Teddington, outside London, one day last week was a well-publicized ride by a well-clothed modern Lady Godiva. Hundreds of amused spectators lined the sidewalks as 13-year-old Mirabelle Muller, in flesh-colored trunks, brassière and...
Out of a knot of sidewalk spectators bustled a puritanical gaffer. He grabbed Lady Godiva's wrist, clawed at her dangling bare leg: "Down with this sacrilege; wearing nothing but a bathing suit! This is supposed to be a God-fearing country." Lady Godiva's father, marching beside...
The real Lady Godiva (Saxon name: Godgifu) made her traditional ride in the middle of the eleventh century in the English town of Coventry. Her husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia, Lord of Coventry, agreed to remit his oppressive taxation on the town if Lady Godiva would ride the streets naked...
This time the hero is a cautious, bearded, monosyllabic Australian artist named Bradly Mudgett-a hardworking, penniless, single-minded solitary whose great aspiration is to be allowed to work in peace. Because it is cheap, Mudgett rents a shack on a deserted beach, hoards his little store of paint and...