Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picked the elder, Joseph Austen, for the great one. Austen went from Rugby to Trinity College, Cambridge, was staked to further polishing in Paris and Berlin, returned to become his father's secretary, to make a maiden speech in the Commons "dear and refreshing to a father's heart." Bathed by his father's setting sun, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903. For his work as Britain's Foreign Secretary (1924-29) he got the Nobel Peace Prize and the almost unprecedented honor, for a commoner, of being raised at one stroke...
...lenses pressed upon him by Vogue. Nimble at climbing a mantelpiece while the lady relaxes below, imaginative Mr. Beaton has even gone so far as to dress the Countess of Oxford and Asquith up as a corpse and snap her surrounded by the lilies and wax candles of Death. Maiden voyagers on the Queen Mary were informed this week that they can at last buy for $5 a medal commemorating that recordless event. Maiden voyagers on the record-breaker Normandie last year received medals free before landing...
...while "structural alterations" and "mechanical overhaul" are proceeded with, object being to reduce the sweep of smut from her funnels, which has been soiling the clothes of passengers on her afterdecks, and to try to get out of her the 34-knot speed officially claimed before she made her maiden voyage with a maximum speed of less than 31 knots...
...worked on his father's 600-acre Illinois farm in the summer, in winter taught school. After his conversion he left home from time to time to preach the new gospel. On one of these sallies he heard of a pious and nubile maiden named Sarah Pea, straightway sat down and wrote her a sober proposal of marriage. Like a good girl, Sarah shut her eyes, opened her Bible, stabbed with her finger. On the strength of the text her finger touched, she wrote him an enthusiastically respectful assent. Two weeks later they met, in four months hey were...
...stage performance since he came to the Throne, the last act of Storm In a Teacup presented in the home of Lady Cunard. May 20 inspected the Coldstream Guards at Aldershot, shouting in at the mess hall door "Any complaints?" May 25 inspected the Queen Mary prior to her maiden voyage, flying from his snuggery, Fort Belvedere at Sunningdale, to Southampton and back to Sunningdale, while Queen Mary went by train. May 28 proclamation that His Majesty will be crowned May 12, 1937. June 7 gifts of $5,000 each by King Edward and Queen Mary to head subscriptions...