Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News. Like doting maiden aunts, Britain's press rang fatuous changes on the great news. Headlines were heady with sentiment over the "love match." Austerity, coal crises, rationing and shortages faded from the news columns to make way for reports of the lovers. "Philip," announced one paper solemnly, "turned up Friday with a ring on the little finger. He usually wears it on his second finger." Even the Daily Worker seemed affected by the monarchical atmosphere. "This alliance," it proclaimed with the cold disapproval of a Romanov, "is not to our liking." While the Daily Express polled its readers...
Developments later proved that the 406 sewage potions were combining to form a miraculous elixir. A love-sick Cambridge maiden unrequited in her passion drank a fifth of iodine and then flung herself into the Charles River to wind things...
...Fulton speech, he told inquirers that he might not write his memoirs, but would leave the raw material to his heirs. Last fall Viscount Camrose, his old friend and publisher of the London Daily Telegraph (see below), sailed for the U.S., ostensibly to enjoy the Queen Elizabeth's maiden voyage, but actually on a mission that not even his staffers knew about: he had come to tell prospective U.S. bidders that Churchill had changed his mind. Camrose himself has the Empire rights to the memoirs. He parried all U.S. offers until LIFE and the Times surprised him with...
...Liberals have found a new hero. His name is Douglas Charles Abbott, Minister of Finance. In his maiden budget speech last week, Abbott endeared the party to more than, 2,000,000 income-tax payers with a cut averaging 29%. At the same time he jumped into favorite's place in winter-book betting as a successor to William Lyon Mackenzie King...
That is about all there is to the story. Comic relief and pathos are added by an acidulous grandma, a neurasthenic maiden aunt and an old wartime friend of Frank's (Sterling Holloway). But the real meat of This Happy Breed is in the many plotless little human studies which Coward writes with such relish-Frank's advice to his bridegroom son, delivered in the privacy of the bathroom, just before the wedding; snappish, jagged family quarrels; a touching drunk scene between the two aging ex-soldiers; Ethel's silent, terrible way of absorbing bitter news...