Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Geneva newshawks called what Diplomat Davis said last week his "maiden speech." As the urbane veteran of perhaps 100 diplomatic causeries in the last ten months, Mr. Davis could afford to ignore the implication of naivete. He spoke for the President pointedly thus...
...present British governmental policies are in the hands of the "maiden aunts," according to H. N. Brailsford writing in the current New Republic. The maiden aunt, he says, "can do nothing, create nothing, not can she expand her inherited income; so she hoards and pinches herself" --so also the National government. The upper and middle classes have joined hands and have adopted a policy of complete retrenchment, throwing over-board the more masculine method of expansion. It was largely a class war in which the Labor Party lost out to the coalition of the Tory and Liberal parties...
...Associated Press discovered that Mississippi has places named Hot Coffee, Whynot and O. K.; Florida has Sonny Boy, Two Egg, Coon and Sisters Welcome; North Carolina has Hog Quarter, Maiden and Red Bug; Virginia has Ego, All, Swallow Well and Topnot; Arkansas has Smackover, Self Sodom, Greasy Corners and Hog Scald; Louisiana has Blank, Wham and Uncle Sam; Georgia has Ty Ty, Crisp, Bacon and New York...
Sammy Fishman, the "Maiden Minnow," together with Ikea Powers are expected to show the Harvard players something in the way of running this afternoon. Both backs did well against Pennsylvania last weekend. Ward Donner is another Indian whom football fans will remember as one of the best ends produced last season, and he is as well a noted pass receiver. Dave Hedges, starting right halfback, is a veteran player...
...Savoy Operas. Gilbert, in a particularly happy mood, made them two pert, attractive little baggages with minds of their own. Tessa and Gianetta steer a refreshing course, avoiding the Victorian doldrums (insipid Mabel, elfish Yum-Yum) and the Gilbertian caricatures (whining Ruth, tasteless Katisha). "When a Merry Maiden Marries" comes off with admirable airiness and grace, and so does the romping fantasy, "'Tis a glorious thing, I ween, to be a Regular Royal Queen." The right note of plaintiveness without nagging is reached in Tessa and Gianetta's advice to their departing husbands, "It's understood you will be good...