Word: maidening
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...mean, but he's good," said Cora Mae Basnight, who played an Indian in the first staging of the work and who has had the supporting role of Agona, an Indian maiden, off and on since 1957. All seven of her children have been in the show. "Even so," Cora Mae went on, "I feel sorry for all those young girls; he just tears 'em up. Us old ones let it roll off our backs...
...married woman who uses her maiden name professionally, Geraldine Ferraro has left a lot of people uncertain about how to address her. In a letter last year to the Washington Post, she clarified the matter, sort of: "I just wanted to let you know that I am a married Ms. I am Mrs. John A. Zaccaro to my kids' teachers and the electric company; Congresswoman Ferraro when I run for reelection; Geraldine to many of my constituents; Gerry to my friends, and Ms. Ferraro to just about anyone else...
...Airlines, including Miss Pennsylvania, sipped champagne as a band played Happy Days Are Here Again. The occasion was American's bubbly celebration of its new service between Harrisburg and Chicago. The highlight of the festivities was the presentation of a plaque to the first passenger booked on the maiden flight. The winner: Ron Rearick, 43, of Bellevue, Wash., who accepted the award and then gave his hosts a shock that flattened the champagne. He presented surprised officials with a copy of his book, Iceman, in which he described his unsuccessful 1972 attempt to extort $1 million from United Airlines...
...flow past a few more bends in the river, nothing more. And nothing less: seen well, the currents and eddies that quicken, disappear and roil to the surface again during two generations of an ordinary family's journey are astonishing and mysterious. Fat-legged baby becomes child, becomes maiden, becomes mother, becomes crone. Which is real? Blink twice; the young hell raiser reappears as the sour pensioner. Which is illusion, hot sexuality or bitter recollection...
...British Rock Music Entrepreneur Richard Branson, 33, succeed where Freddie Laker failed? The answer began unfolding last week as Branson's new airline, Virgin Atlantic, made its maiden flight from Gatwick Airport near London to Newark Airport near New York City. It carried 465 passengers, most paying a cut-rate $138, about $230 less than current standard transatlantic fares. The price will rise to $167 on July 1. An ultra-plush first-class service is also available at $1,400, about the same that other carriers charge for first class...