Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Englishmen, Frenchmen, had not reckoned on the many patriotic Dutchmen, particularly the cosmopolite Deterding. He sped over from London. When the bidding began the potency of Dutch oil, of Dutch nurture, became plain. The Letter by Gerard Terboch stood on the easel, a slight canvas in which a pretty maiden is seen writing a billet-doux. There was a fusillade of bidding. Sir Henri pounced on the foreigners, kept raising the bid "dix mille guilders" at a leap. He triumphed at $127,600. It all happened again with Jacob Ochtervelt's The Oyster Eaters. For this gastronomic scene...
...long winter evenings. Anxious motherhood may well feel an unusual apprehension in view of the widespread rumor that students are now interested in studies. If Harvard men forsake the ball-room, this last infirmary for noble minds, and refuse to go, marching in close order to answer a maiden's prayer, undergraduate interest in things intellectual will Indeed be permanently confirmed...
...some two blocks long (763 feet) and her name is Count Zeppelin, nyth rigid airship of famed Zeppelin progeny. Last week, out of her hangar at Friedrichshafen, Germany, she emerged for her maiden flight, a short one. Her pilot was her designer-Dr. Hugo Eckener. She carried a crew of 30 and Lieut. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. Navy, lord of the Los Angeles...
...came steaming across from Genoa to New York, last week, on her maiden New York voyage. She is 100% "made in Italy." Il Duce saw to that. She has the Majesty of 33,000 tons, the Serenity of four giant silent Diesel Engines, and she has Power, 28,000 horse power...
Near Lake Savant, Ontario, an amorous redskin sang songs to his Indian maiden. Bored, she fled into the woods with a more desirable suitor. The jilted, jealous brave methodically set about firing the entire forest area. Detected by a forest ranger, he retreated; was later arrested by the famed inescapable redshirt police...