Word: madam
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...Carpenter, a panel speaker who worked with Elizabeth Dole in her failed bid for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination, simply answers that the rules are different for women candidates than they are for men. Eleanor Clift, whose book Madam President examines the barriers to women’s executive leadership, agreed that the standards are drastically different for women, but she added, “women should not have to apologize for wanting a seat at the table” considering they make up half of the population and vote in greater numbers than...
Untouched, Eliot barked back, “Madam, we can’t put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery...
...biddy (a term used to describe the wonderful Irish maids who, as long as the remuneration was adequate, looked after the students) walked into his room using her latchkey and found him on the floor in his birthday suit. Oh my God! she exclaimed. No Madam, not GodArthur Darby Knock! The story may be apocryphal, but we all knew it at the time...
...Heidi Fleiss, madam to the stars, provided a little entertainment to the attendees of BookExpo, with her soon-to-be self-published book, "Pandering." In a booth decorated like a bordello, with tiger-skin rugs, red brocade walls and comely young "models" with bare midriffs, Fleiss advertised her forthcoming coffee table book. (We're still trying to imagine the person for whose coffee table this is intended.) The book is described by Pages magazine as "a multimedia collage, a cultural document, a pop-art concoction, a witty roman a clef, incorporating court documents, pages from Fleiss' personal and business diaries...
This interest in history is essential, because each Minute Man must research his character in depth. For instance, Forman portrays John Hosmer, a young man who was set to attend Harvard until his benefactress, Madam Ryall, died. Instead, Hosmer became a shoemaker and Minute Man who survived the war and was around in 1835 to see the first reenactment...