Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...innocent maiden aunts (Jean Aikin and Ruth McDevitt) with the corpses in the basement are the most fascinating innovation in the American literature of the past few years. Slaughterers deluxe of the petite bourgeoisie, the nice old ladies are rivaled only by their nephew (Bela Lugosi) whose 11 murders falls one short of their total...
Phantom Lady (Universal) is the maiden production of Joan Harrison, who used to be Alfred Hitchcock's Girl Friday and who now becomes one of the few women producers in Hollywood's history.-Phantom Lady lags behind Hitchcock's best films, but it has picked up enough from them to sprint laps ahead of most thrillers...
...December 1917 Private McGonegal left Hoboken with 12,500 others aboard the Leviathan, seabound on her maiden voyage as a troop transport under the American flag...
...original Peter Rabbit was pulled out of a hat of kindness. In 1893 Beatrix Potter (her maiden name) concocted him in some letters to a sick child. The invalid was enchanted. In 1901 Peter made his book debut accompanied by his brother and sisters Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail. In one of the simplest, shortest and fastest moving tales ever written (53 more-or-less declarative sentences, 27 colored pictures) the pastel-tinted miscreant Peter spent a lawless day, got into proper trouble, limped home a furry wreck but safe at last. And to sleep with him went every child...
Over Twenty-One (by Ruth Gordon; produced by Max Gordon). It was a dead cinch that in her maiden stage effort Ruth Gordon the playwright would be kind to Ruth Gordon the actress. It was less a cinch that she would also be kind to the audience. But though Over Twenty-One is a collection of comic swatches rather than something cut from whole cloth, it proves a lively evening...