Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French Line's new S.S. France, we got aboard the ship to photograph its interiors in color, and combine this with views of two other new liners that dare to challenge the age of jets. From aboard the France. Researcher Marcia Gauger reported: "If anyone thinks the maiden voyage on the France is all champagne and caviar-well...
What is it? It is a potty old party, the very model of what the aitch-adding British call a "maiden haunt." It is Comedienne Margaret Rutherford, 69 and still going strong (Passport to Pimlico; I'm All Right, Jack], and in this adaptation of an Agatha Christie chiller called 4:50 from Paddington she has a role that is custom-tailored to her somewhat peculiar measure...
...Valerie) whom he plans to wed. The wife simply must get even. Would the husband mind ever so much if she asked him to seduce the intended bride? Not at all. Least a man can do to protect his wife's reputation. With zest, the husband consumes the maiden's virtue, and then goes on to dessert: a respectable young mother (Annette Vadim, the director's ex-wife...
...Maiden Aunts. Knudsen in personality and record is a subdued version of Cole. He came out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936, joined G.M. three years later. After hitches in the automotive, aircraft and diesel engine manufacturing divisions, he took over Pontiac in 1956 when it was looked on as a car good only for maiden aunts. Knudsen ripped off Pontiac's traditional chrome streaks, pepped up its engine and gave it gimmick features ("wide track." split grille). Result: while other medium-priced cars continued to slide, Pontiac jumped from sixth place in sales into a fight with...
...maiden aunt of mine keeps insisting that people mellow when they enter middle-age. I have always thought this nostrum a trifle pat, and Ingmar Bergman (doubtless intending no malice to my aunt) turns her theory inside out with Secrets of Women, an unpretentious early work that precedes by some years the tempestuous and difficult films by which he is better known. For Bergman, the mellowness of maturity seems to have come before youth's probing restlessness...