Word: maidening
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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...
...much of an improvement, but Lorre is grateful, and he informs Wizard Price that his lost love, Lenore, is a prisoner in the castle of Wizard Karloff. Together they rush off to release her, but when they arrive, they discover that Lenore is no longer the "sainted maiden" of literary memory. She is a lusty redhead (Hazel Court) with a cleavage that could comfortably accommodate the collected works of Edgar Allan Poe and a bottle of his favorite booze besides. Price demands her release. Karloff refuses. With Lorre grinning fiendishly in the wings, the two wizards cross wands...
...shutter, and with many a flirt and flutter, in there steps a stately raven of the saintly days of yore. "Prophet!" says he, "thing of evil! Prophet still, if bird or devil! Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore!" Quoth the raven...
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...