Word: lasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pennsylvania showed up with a girl on its teams. Some last minute scurrying got the lady a bed in an off-campus house at Radcliffe. She apparently liked the Annex, because she stayed a week. In the meantime, a McGill team arrived to debate Harvard, and the Pennsylvania lass struck up acquaintance with one of the Canadians. When last heard from she was on her way to Montreal for a long weekend...
...Kathleen Ferrier, a Lancashire lass who likes to "keep them guessing a little longer" about her age (best guess: early 30s), Orfeo is "a tremendous emotional experience ... I want to cry all the time." A pianist in her teens, she had never taken a singing lesson until 1940, after she had entered a voice contest on a dare...
...this frivolity is pinned to a conventional story involving Astaire and Rogers as a couple of hoofers. Astaire has gone and joined the Navy when Miss Rogers, a fine broth of a lass, refuses to marry him on the grounds that matrimony will ruin her career. The picture depicts Astaire's return and Rogers' reconciliation, as well as a more or less uninteresting subplot about another sailor and another girl. But the characters seem happy enough all the way through, and it is evident that none of them takes the plot too seriously...
What caused Scotland's idyllic male surplus? 1) Many a Scots lass, drafted into English factories during the war, never went home-which had provoked loud protests from Scotsmen at the time. 2) Many another lass had married a Polish, Canadian or U.S. soldier stationed in Scotland. South of the border, the girls had a far grimmer time of it; England had a surplus of 166,000 marriageable women...
...cavalry borrowed the name. Says Webster: " 'Fiddler's Green' is the imagined Elysian field of sailors and vagabond craftsmen, where credit is good and there is always a lass, a glass, and a song...