Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Restoration England, a robustious culture surrounded the pious fortress of the church like a red satin garter on a maiden's thigh. Trapped inside the fortress all day, church composers slipped out at night to meet in taverns where, in naughty laughter, they celebrated secular gaiety by composing bawdy songs to one another. Now, three young singers who call themselves "The Catch Club" are running through a lighthearted repertory of the old songs, proving nicely that spicy jokes are almost ageless...
Teddy Kennedy, in his maiden speech on the Senate floor, wishes all his colleagues a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Foreign diplomats interpret the 30-second speech as a plea from the Administration for good will in the Atlantic Alliance. De Gaulle interprets the speech as nonsense. A simultaneous translator interprets the speech into grammatical English...
...deceive me, Oh, never leave me, How could you use A poor maiden...
...Tennessee firm named Test Fleet. The new outfit leased trucks to Commercial Carriers. All the Test Fleet stock was transferred to Mrs. Hoffa and the wife of Owen ("Bert") Brennan, a Teamster vice president who died in 1961; the two women discreetly used their maiden names of Josephine Poszywak and Alice Johnson...
...sales director of the company that makes Butterfingers, the adman was on the phone next morning to Warner Bros, offering to spend $3,000,000 on a promotional campaign if Warner would plug Butterfingers in the movie version of Gypsy. Now, in the wide-screen Gypsy, Candy Salesman Karl Maiden spiritedly says: "Crispy Butterfingers are better than those plain chocolate bars...