Word: madams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squarely constructed redheaded woman in her middle 30s, with the hoarse voice and hearty manner of a call-house madam, she talks about sex in clear, unsubtle terms. Her joke vocabulary is full of colons and ova. She discusses sexual failures, makes fun of women with abnormally small chest development, and moves from person to person in her audiences making clever references to the probable size of their genitalia. Some of her words are pretty old Collegiate Gothic, like horny and poontang. And she is billed as The Knockers Up Girl...
...Greenmantle, for instance, another Hannay pal called Sandy Arbuthnot spurns the passionate advances of a fetching but fell lady spy named Hilda von Einem. "You must know, Madam," he says as bullets whiz about them, "that I am a British officer." Nowadays such behavior is hopelessly out of all fashion, literary and otherwise...
...hand, sneered: "I guess you're for God, motherhood and country, ain't you?" Retorted Alsop: "That's right. And I'm also against man-eating sharks." An hour later, Alsop approached a suburban housewife near Torrington and said: "Have one of my biographies, madam. There's not a lie in it. A few exaggerations, perhaps...
...Higgins (ABC), largely because its producers have persuaded Stanley Holloway, the original Doolittle of My Fair Lady, to play an English butler in an American home. Holloway is such a skillful actor that he can engage a line like this one and win: "Here's your tea, madam. I had a bit of a time getting it out of those little bags you store...
...America was to race alone against the entire Royal Yacht Squadron. At the finish line, aboard her royal yacht, Queen Victoria herself waited to present the "100 Guineas Cup" to the winner. Finally, a hail from the bridge: "Sail ho!" "Which boat is it?" demanded the Queen. "The America, Madam." Said Victoria: "Oh, indeed! And which is second?" There was a pause, while the signalman's glass swept the horizon. "I regret to report," came the halting reply, "that there is no second." "Yankee trickery," charged the British yachtsmen, hinting darkly that black-hulled America was powered by some...