Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girl and attended his commencement incognito is therefore, very pleasing. He allowed his class poem to be read by a substitute while he received his degree as well as certain prizes and eulogies "in absentia," smiling appreciatively from his inconspicuous seat in the auditorium like any gushing maiden...
...York Times suggests the degree of Spinster of dentistry, architecture, and all the other subjects which women now feel it necessary to pursue. Here is a subject to which the Lucy Stone League might well devote a few spare moments, instead of trying to preserve the maiden names of married ladies against the machinations of cruel passport officers...
...seen and heard groups of giggling girls passing to and from the delivery room. He may even have carried his researches as far as the lecture halls and noticed the rare but real feminine presence in this or that course. Such may be the explanation of Harvard's maiden appearance in the society of coeducational colleges...
...above go out?the sign that a session had just ended. Not many minutes earlier, a weary man had risen from the Treasury Bench to make his way?some few hundred yards to his downy bed. . . . Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been battling for his maiden budget...
...sand storm. Early pictures of the nurse girl struggling to escape from an orphanage had little bearing on the general scheme but were nevertheless the most interesting. Marion Davies is starred and gives an extraordinarily good performance at first, that thins down to the close-up of a lovely maiden type of playing...