Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...custom in Congress that a new member shall for a time shrink against the crannied wall, and then later, being seasoned in the Congressional climate, he may open the flowers of his rhetoric. So the custom of the maiden speech has arisen, and last week one of the three ladies of the House, elected more than a year ago and present in Congress since last December, spoke forth in formal words for the first time?and her first words were a reproach. She was Mrs. Julius (Florence) Kahn, whose late husband was one of the military experts of the House...
...Maiden, Mass., a green and white shingled bungalow, pleasantly near the well-kept greenery of Middlesex Fells, boasts a new tenant...
LOLLY WILLOWES, OR THE LOVING HUNTSMAN?Sylvia Townsend Warner?Viking Press ($2). Lolly Willowes, a forgotten maiden, was nearly 50 before she understood the impulses long stirring beneath her life-routine among normal, well- to-do British relatives?impulses that had set her to reading in dusty books about werewolves and spells; to searching for potent, hidden herbs on solitary walks; and to quaint medicinal brewings and distillations in private...
...mother and also like a "dutch uncle." They kept on working. Her ways with the public, with the company's 40,000 consumers, were always winning. She humanized the business. She is known as Mary E. Dillon. But she is married-to Henry Farber, wholesale coal dealer. The maiden name she keeps not to confuse her friends, her customers...
...Neptune risen from the vasty deep last week and climbed the tribune of the German Reichstag wearing a double nannygoat beard, the sensation could scarcely have exceeded that caused by the "maiden speech" of Grand Admiral Alfred Friedrich von Tirpitz...