Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orchestra was playing "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" from Florodora when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White. The architect, who had started to rise when he saw Mr. Thaw coming toward him, sank back into his chair with an expression of sudden weariness while a tide of slow vermilion spread like spilled wine across the bosom of his evening shirt. That was in June, 1906. Now Harry Thaw has written a book...
...rise and fall, she lives on, always the self-reliant child of the roads at heart, trusting only her own being as the total of reality it is given man to know in his time. The writing is fibrous yet delicate-again like a vine. The author, a mature maiden lady, is little known, save for a volume of children's poems (Under the Tree) called "graceful," "clear," "candid" by Critic Louis Untermeyer...
...residence at the time. Neither of these conditions were fulfilled. A Belgian missionary is not a French diplomat. Mongolian custom says that a man must either capture his wife in a horse galloping ceremony, or buy her from her family (ten ewe lambs being the price of a maiden and 20 for a young widow...
Since 1905 was a "Hinuma year," the passing of 1925 brought thoughts of suicide to many a maiden. Tokyo correspondents last week reported that at least 300 "1905 Hinuma girls" have committed suicide* in Japan since...
...Godey Books in her nursery. She traveled in Europe and roamed as far as the University of Wisconsin for her education. During the War she farmeretted in Virginia. But Boston reclaimed her as a literary lady in the Houghton, Mifflin Co., where warm friends now thank fortune that her maiden novel is no hail-and-farewell. She married Albert Hoskins of Philadelphia last January, but with no Lancian translation of hymen vincit omnia. On the contrary, Husband Hoskins will set her free for the literary career that she has, by this gay token, so successfully begun...