Word: maidening
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...Koussevitzky when he heard Lanza do Vesti la Giubba. "You will come up with me to the Berkshires." Recalls Lanza: "I didn't know what the hell the Berkshires was, but I figured it must be something big and great." He borrowed and adapted his mother's maiden name, Maria Lanza, and went on a scholarship to the 1942 music festival at Tanglewood, Mass., where he and Conductor-Composer Leonard Bernstein were Koussevitzky's favorites. There, too, the tenor found beer-drinking with the stage hands more fun than studying, but the New York Times...
Every Member of Parliament dies twice -once in the way of all flesh, but once, earlier, when he must rise to make his maiden speech. A polite mumble is par for the course. Only once in a blue moon can a new member move the old House to astonishment, amusement or anger...
...Brazen Hussy. Chuckled Herbert's friend Winston Churchill later: "Call that a maiden speech? It was a brazen hussy of a speech. Never did such a painted lady of a speech parade itself before a modest Parliament...
...mother's maiden name, given by his father, John F. Queeny, to the little chemical company he founded in a small woodett factory in St. Louis...
...rival of a new sweptwing, all-jet B-36), the swift new heavy, powered by eight jet engines, will have almost the same range and bomb load as the B-36, and a lot more speed. If all goes well, the B-52 will make its maiden flight next fall, start coming off production lines twelve months later, six years after the first design and a full year ahead of schedule...