Word: lasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modest Proposal. In London, the Chelsea Borough Council abandoned plans for a big electric sign along the Thames waterfront after Councilor Margery Thornton argued: "Let us leave a little darkness for the lover and his lass...
Since a woman's place in this man's world is to grow and prepare his food, a Kogi man's idea of a good catch is a lass with a workhorse physique. He helps in the fields (sugar cane, turnips, potatoes) as little as he can. He and his wife live in separate conical houses. Daily, the woman cooks a thin soup of vegetables, sets it on a terrace outside her house, where her husband comes to eat. Nights, she lures him to lie down in the fields, threatening to cut off the soup...
...fired the broadside that shook the Renown off the mud when under the fire of red-hot shot was helpless when confronted by a couple of women." The heroic bounder slinks out on an affair of the heart with his landlady's daughter, and while the lass tearfully presses his uniform, spends the last 50 pages of the book at his club, playing whist...
...upper right hand corner the model is wearing standard hairdo, the always attractive short bob. Next to her a luscious lass depict the sh' gled hair...
...John F. Rogers had four patients in St. Francis Hospital recovering from operations. For their sake, he dropped out of the league. But, he added, he might quit the hospital staff when his patients were better. Drs. Martin Leiser and Paul M. Lass also decided to stay with the hospital. In his case, said Lass, it was all a mistake: he had never been a member of the league, had been consulted occasionally as a specialist in human fertility and sterility...