Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sometimes these various relics, like the prisoners of the Bastille, are thrown into the dank den and then left to rot forgotten. In one musty corner, investigators discerned what seemed to be the tattered remnsuts of old Blondie, the maiden aunt of the hippopotamus in the Union...
...three years, two rewritings-a period as hectic as one long house cleaning-Mrs. Gasparotti got it to come out right and sent it off under her maiden name, Elizabeth Seifert, to the Dodd, Mead-Redbook Magazine $10,000 novel contest. The day the news came she had won, she and the children "just sat down and looked at each other." That night her husband "didn't sleep a wink and I didn't get much rest myself...
Briskly into New York harbor from Rotterdam one shiny morning last week rode the new, 10,704-ton Holland-America Line motorship Noordam, with a holdful of reasons why her maiden voyage should be considered an important item of marine intelligence. Second unit of a new Holland-America fleet,* she enjoyed the distinction of being the only transatlantic ship ever built with a private bath in every passenger cabin. A neat combination of freighter and passenger ship, her high-set midship superstructure is calculated to provide first-class passenger comfort at tourist rates ($253 round trip), while her low-slung...
...Four maiden ladies and 71 wide-hipped matrons, who looked as though their lives revolved around lemon pies and peonies, gathered around the first tee of New York's Westchester Country Club last week, chattering like magpies and nervously fanning the air with their drivers. Stretched ahead of them were 36 holes of golf, a two-day tournament to determine the best U. S. lady golfer between the ages of 50 and 70. Those with handicaps of 14 or less competed in Class A, those handicapped at 15 to 25 in Class B, from 25 up in Class...
...wash-for-suppertime, soap makers like to catch housewives at the morning laundry or noon dishes. But the fact remains that of the average 65% of their time the networks boast of giving away, by far the greater part is in the daytime. Commercial radio, like many a maiden, looks best after dark...