Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Filed in the fall of 1979, the suit rested on New York State's constitutional responsibility to provide "aid, care and support of the needy." It was Hayes' maiden court appearance; the judge accepted his argument and ordered the city of New York to give shelter-meaning a bed-to anyone requesting it. Continuing to find conditions "pretty bad," he went back to court a year later, charging New York with dragging its feet and doing no more than "warehousing" the homeless. The city promised in a consent decree to carry out the earlier order. And last month...
...best tradition of her genre, Warner recalls old gardens and village churches and eccentric nannies and a dotty old major, a bit the worse for duty in India, and, yes, her dogs. When she died in the Dorset village of Maiden Newton in 1978, discreet as an old teacup at the age of 84, she already passed for an Edwardian relic, inhabiting, in her own words, a "long, long ago, when there was a Tzar in Russia, and scarcely an automobile or a divorced person in Mayfair...
...significance for her-dragonflies, mushrooms, four-leaf clovers, bits of broken pottery. Like White, she could not walk out her back door without seeing druids and pucks and Camelot. The only child of a schoolmaster-"solitary and agnostic as a little cat"-she was a wild romantic beneath the maiden-aunt exterior that she proffered...
...wish one line of visual poetry had been included in Images, like the unforgettable touchdown of the maiden flight of the space shuttle Columbia. The beautiful curve of the ship's lifted nose was purely lyrical. Grace Carstens East Sandwich, Mass...
...well. Once an elegant address on Manhattan's Upper West Side, it is now suffering from the not-so-benign neglect of the landlord. Margaret Mary's chief joy and solace is playing the piano, mostly Strauss and Chopin waltzes in tandem with a violin-playing "maiden lady" of about 50 named Cara Varnum (Dorothy Lou-don). Both actresses "fake" their instruments stylishly...