Word: maidening
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...like to be invited to lunch. Upon receiving such a hint one day, the governor of Amman hastily rounded up 100 distinguished guests and prepared no fewer than 15 roast lambs, only to have Mohammed drive by at the appointed hour-on his way to a rendezvous with a maiden in the neighborhood...
...crime," wrote a London editor, "was the chief seat of its persistence." After one reform bill was "talked out" of Parliament in the spring of 1885, the Pall Mall Gazette's W. T. (for William Thomas) Stead, a brilliant crusading journalist, published a four-part study entitled The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon that stunned the nation and appalled the world. The reform bill was reintroduced, rushed through Parliament, and became law in August...
...Golden Door, a sort of rich woman's Vic Tanny, which last week opened its $300-a-week rooms, whirlpool baths and scented steam chambers to men. All week, the youth seekers submitted to facials, manicures, pedicures, aromatic oilings, honey packs and pummeling by a benevolently mechanical Iron Maiden. Actor Jim (Mr. Magoo) Backus, 46, his intricate schedule pinned to his sweatshirt, worked up special enthusiasm for lip-stretching, wrinkle-reducing maneuvers that pulled his mouth from ear to ear. Actor and Health Faddist Robert Cummings, 50, gyrated in a wild tangle with Boy Scout staves...
...Cairo does not allow its ships to pass freely through the canal.* For a time after the Suez invasion, the Egyptians allowed Israeli cargoes to go through in ships flying the flags of other nations. Then one day last May, Cairo stopped the Danish freighter Inge Toft on her maiden voyage to seize an Israeli cargo; Inge Toft and her crew have sat in Port Said ever since...
...Board exam last week. Unlike most of the others, they were delightfully distant from their high schools in Illinois and Ohio. Ten miles east of the dark mountains of Communist China, Marie and Dave pondered answers in a classroom near Hong Kong. It was another fringe benefit in the maiden voyage of the International School of America, creation of Karl G. Jaeger, a budding (29) industrialist turned teacher. Tuition: $4,650 (including air fare...