Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly and sharply policemen barked, "Sinistra, Signora!", "Sinistro, Signore!" Those who disobeyed were roughly collared and questioned: "Your name, Signora? Your age? You must answer, Signora! Your father's name? Your mother's maiden name...
...confused with the Lucy Stone League composed of women who retain the use of their full maiden names, though married. Such women are popularly dubbed "Lucy Stoners...
...Maiden Name: "Unknown...
Died. Judge Thomas P. Riley, 53, of Maiden, Mass., onetime campaign manager for Woodrow Wilson, onetime defeated opponent of Calvin Coolidge for the Lieutenant-Governorship of Massachusetts; of pneumonia; in Cleveland, where he had been campaigning for Alfred E. Smith. It was Judge Riley, with Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, who secured the New England vote for Governor Smith in the Houston convention...
Dorothy Gish is cast in Young Love as a tempestuous and idealistic latter-day maiden striving to assure marital congeniality by pre-nuptial experiment. In the first few lines, she and her fiancé express satisfaction with last night's trial. To make it doubly sure, they exchange partners with their unconsulted host and hostess. Miss Gish completes an affair with host, but fiancé quails before hostess. Then follow two acts of confessions, recriminations, door-slammings, to end with four-way felicity the way it should be (according to the movies). Despite such items as "I love...