Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he married her in his 503, had passion alone to recommend her. But for an aging man who had been careful all his life, that was enough. He painted her as Venus in furs, as all three Graces, and (for her bedroom) as a pornographic maiden attacked by a shepherd. He had had plenty of practice when he received from the King of Spain an order for 112 pictures on Ovid's Metamorphoses ("Never has any painter received so gigantic a commission"). Before he finished, the King ordered 24 more. Then gout caught Rubens' hands. Paralysis followed...
...blast furnaces, in mold lofts, in shops where steel was twisted and wrenched into shape, on ways, alongside docks getting fitted out and smeared with the last daub of grey war paint. Some were on the high seas. Into Alexandria, Egypt, last week steamed the Patrick Henry, after a maiden voyage that took her around South Africa, through the Red Sea and the Suez into the Mediterranean, with 10,000 tons of war supplies...
Still in drydock as far as proven ability goes, the Varsity lacrosse team takes to the water on its maiden voyage next week when its ports of call on the annual spring trip are Penn, the University of Maryland, and Navy...
Londoners began to prophesy that within three months Sir Stafford Cripps would have talked himself either into Winston Churchill's job or out of the Cabinet. For the fourth successive week he was having a fling. Warmed by the success of his maiden speech as Leader of the Commons (TIME, March 9), the Red Squire last week begged the United Nations to snuggle more closely into bed. "After the victory," he said, "let us remain in the same gallant company to rebuild a stricken world upon the foundations of justice and equality that will secure for us, for them...
Thus, last week, did London acclaim Sir Stafford Cripps's maiden speech as new leader of the House of Commons (TIME, March 2). At the end of a two-day debate, the Red Squire, using careful jottings on tiny sheets of notepaper. an swered all major questions in the almost record time for 40 minutes. Though his mannerisms were coldly legal, M.P.s soon warmed to the passionate conviction he injected into his words. Only a major speech by Churchill (who was conspicuously absent) would have drawn a bigger house. Even a few tired, wise old peers climbed into...