Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Schubert, 1797--1828--Theme, "Death and the Maiden," with variations, from Quartet, D minor...
...terribly out of my element, terribly at sea. I know what one woman?Mary?can do and I can imagine what 10,000 women can do. "I am married to an organization, you know, Mary Pickford, but when I married I insisted on retaining my maiden name...
Schubert, 1797-1828--Theme, "Death and the Maiden," with variations, from Quartet, D minor...
...these institutions has suffered as has Adrian College. There in Michigan the Kappa Kappa Gamma girls have really suffered. For spring and one quart of local indiscretion--evidently not born with them in the consulship of Metellus as was the wiser wine of Horace--have forced from their maiden lips sincere and righteous words of condemnation. Ten live men and a bottle of rum were too much for Kappa Kappa Gamma--and the girls reported to the president--thus...
Wilde's imagination was never "fired," but of all stimulants to its lucubration the Orient was most potent. The masque concerns a charming maiden, Mah Phru, who consoled King Meng Beng while he awaited the coming of his Cingalese bride from Ceylon, bearing him two sons in the interim. When he returned to his palace she followed as a white peacock, watched her sons grow up, adored Meng Beng mutely. When he was dying, she revived him, at the cost of her own life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants...