Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to be by the temperance wave that is going on all over the world. ... I know at least two Parliamentary candidates who have actually been approached with offers of money from the liquor interests. In 1919 my wife succeeded me in the House of Commons. She made her maiden speech in favor of keeping shorter the hours of the sale of drink. . . . The trade has tried continuously to get her out of public life...
Refrigerators. Production of new Majestic Household Utilities Co., first Grigsby-Grunow step toward diversification (TIME, April 28) begins in July. Maiden product: a mechanical refrigerator...
...Close-Hauled" is a maiden venture in the field of letters. As such, perhaps it should receive more gentle treatment than a similar work by one of the American pot-holding gentry. There are present many surprising word arrangements, many sprawling sentences, even a few errors in grammar that are apparent to an undergraduate, but then, as the publishers say in a foreword, the manuscript of the book was left unaltered for fear of spoiling the elemental vigor of it all. But if this is damning with faint praise, we'll go further any say that "Close Hauled", granting excuses...
...pictures, lovely in her trailing gowns, is better than the rest of them all the time. Typical shots: the bathing party, the bicycle picnic, the harmony singing, the love-scenes in swings, the hero following his sweetheart on stage when she comes out for the "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" number...
...unicorn, early writers said, was unconquerable by ordinary huntsman's methods. The best method was virgin-baiting. A maiden, preferably pretty, necessarily young, was undressed, turned loose in a field. The "vapours" of her virginity, explained zoologists, were what attracted the animal, dissipated his fighting spirit. Docilely the unicorn would approach the maiden, fondle her. Putting his head in her lap he would go to sleep. Then she would summon the huntsmen who would dispatch him. Also, claimed authorities, this was a valuable test 'for virginity. The unicorn, on discovering a hoax, would summarily run the lady through with...