Word: maidening
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...original Peter Rabbit was pulled out of a hat of kindness. In 1893 Beatrix Potter (her maiden name) concocted him in some letters to a sick child. The invalid was enchanted. In 1901 Peter made his book debut accompanied by his brother and sisters Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail. In one of the simplest, shortest and fastest moving tales ever written (53 more-or-less declarative sentences, 27 colored pictures) the pastel-tinted miscreant Peter spent a lawless day, got into proper trouble, limped home a furry wreck but safe at last. And to sleep with him went every child...
Over Twenty-One (by Ruth Gordon; produced by Max Gordon). It was a dead cinch that in her maiden stage effort Ruth Gordon the playwright would be kind to Ruth Gordon the actress. It was less a cinch that she would also be kind to the audience. But though Over Twenty-One is a collection of comic swatches rather than something cut from whole cloth, it proves a lively evening...
...program, in order of presentation, is a follows: Schubert's Tragic Symphony, the first movement of Schumann's Piano Concerts, Turkish March from Beethoven's Ruins of Athens, Kamarin Skaya by Glinka, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Dance of Buffoons from the Snow Maiden...
Four years after Repetto found the maiden, a ship touched at Tristan, took back photographs to Cape Town. There a mechanic of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm identified it as the figurehead of the Admiral Karpfanger, which had once been laid up in his Liverpool shipyard...
...Aboard were 44 cadets and 16 officers and men of the Hamburg-America Line. Five weeks later she radioed her position from somewhere south of New Zealand and said she would round Cape Horn. That was the last ever heard of her until the lily maiden was found...