Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notoriously due, in part, to the fact that German businessmen were quickest to present the ultimate consumer with exactly what he wanted to buy under exactly the name and guise to which he was accustomed. Therefore, as the newest Hamburg-American Liner steamed toward New York harbor on her maiden voyage last week, the name painted at her keen bow and across her neat stern was, of course, New York...
...bequeathed to Harvard University by the will of Mrs. Isabella Holden Corey, widow of D. P. Corey of Maiden...
...later, Miss Jones tells the world that she is a "Lucy Stoner," that she intends to keep her maiden name. Says she: "I refuse to become an echo to my husband. . . . The basis of marriage is not love but congeniality and interest and respect. These alone will bring love...
...What was the maiden name of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln...
Until Dr. Phelps's memory mends, "Miss Tiverton" will serve. The lady's second offering fully merits the company of her first. Maidens revolt in every third novel these days but here is a maiden whose technique is neither kittenish nor hoydenish. Motherless Letty Monckton is a British country gentlewoman with as much poise as poetry about her. Her flight from the bosom of Moncktonism?father, manor, cousins, suitor ?to the humbler hearth and home of Andrew Bullen, tweeded biologist, is not like the flapping of a decapitated chicken but like the career of a startled teal, which will...