Word: lasse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profligate London, Admiral Howe is renowned as a faithful husband. Not so Brother William, a shallower, more convivial personality who, though married, likes his lass and his glass. General Howe's goings on with pretty blonde Betsey Loring, 25, whom he met in Boston last year and is thought to have brought with him to New York (along with her complaisant husband), have already given rise to a number of salacious ditties. Because of her unofficial power, she is known among British officers as "The Sultana...
...BIONIC WOMAN (ABC, Wednesday, 8 p.m. E.S.T.) either, unless you are a Six Million Dollar Man looking for a mate. But there is more wit inherent in the new show's conceit than there is in that of the original model: superhuman physical prowess is unexpected in a lass as comely as Lindsay Wagner. On the opening program, for example, Wagner, whose cover job is schoolteaching, delivered homilies on peace and cooperation while abstractedly tearing a telephone book in half. One hopes the show's writers will keep this spirit of comic-book irony going...
...search of novelty, there was a first look at a potentially exciting new partnership. Gelsey Kirkland was dancing, for the first time ever, in a showy pas de deux from Le Corsaire, with that ubiquitous guest artist Rudolf Nureyev. All smoldering fire, Nureyev and the ethereal Gelsey, a lass with a very delicate air indeed, looked well together, and the audience loved them...
Hudson, it seems, nobly renounced his ambition to be a lawyer and took a job as a gamekeeper to support his parents and educate a gifted younger brother. He falls in love with a highland lass, only to watch her die from measles...
...bartenders. Several ministers are also can cultists, including a Connecticut pastor who starts letters to fellow collectors "Dearly Beerloved." The association distributes a bimonthly newsletter, holds a sudsy annual "can-vention" that was attended this fall by more than 600 enthusiasts, and each year bestows on some beer-busty lass the dubious title of Miss Beer Can. Members range in rank from "brewery worker," with up to 249 cans, to "grand brewmaster" (1,000 or more...